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The paper presents the innovative technology of high-altitude wind power generation, indicated as Kitenergy, which exploits the automatic flight of tethered airfoils (e.g., power kites) to extract energy from wind blowing between 200 and 800 m above the ground. The key points of this technology are described and the design of large scale plants is investigated, in order to show that it has the potential to overcome the limits of the actual wind turbines and to provide large quantities of renewable energy, with competitive cost with respect to fossil sources. Such claims are supported by the results obtained so far in the Kitenergy project, undergoing at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, including numerical simulations, prototype experiments, and wind data analyses.
Published in:
Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:25
,
Issue:
1
)
Date of Publication: March 2010
- Page(s):
- 168 - 180
- ISSN :
- 0885-8969
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 11138234
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/TEC.2009.2032582
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Publication :
- 08 December 2009
- Date of Current Version :
- 18 February 2010
- Issue Date :
- March 2010
- Sponsored by :
- IEEE Power & Energy Society
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