Powering sustainable innovation

Kona Clean Teknologies founder, Lynn Chikosha, is a Chemistry graduate with more than 20 years of experience in working with coatings and applied materials. In 2025, Lynn decided she wanted to focus her extensive knowledge and expertise on improving sustainability in the wind energy sector, something she was really passionate about. She set up Kona Clean Teknologies, which develops advanced, sustainable coatings that extend the life of critical offshore infrastructure, with the primary focus being wind turbines.

Offshore wind turbines operate in harsh environments out at sea and over time sustain significant damage that significantly reduces their energy efficiency. Carrying out repairs to the turbines is a complex and expensive process due to both the logistics and the downtime involved. The Kona solution to this problem is the development of advanced sustainable materials that will coat and protect the turbines, reducing damage and making them more resilient to their environment, while at the same time eliminating hazardous materials. Many of the current coatings contain solvents and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs that are harmful to both the environment and human health. Kona’s focus is creating high performance products using bio-based materials to eliminate the harmful impacts.