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Analysis: Do Bill Gates-backed firm's plans for 'unique, cheaper, smaller' wind power add up?

joining kite-based wind power systems developer Makani. “For decades, the wind indus...

Opinion: Norway’s supply chain drives floating offshore wind momentum

;(floating multi-turbine technology), Makani  (open source energy kite system) or SeaT...

SkySails' airborne wind system kite ships to Asia

by an automatically controlled power kite that pulls a tether from the winch while the gen...

Looking back on 2020 – Part 3: Turbine ratings and rotor sizes continue to go up

to stabilise blades without the use of handheld taglines. Kite-based power systems manufac...

Makani makes kite-based wind-power data available

Kite-based wind-power systems developer Makani is making technical materials, including its...

Google parent drops kite-power pioneer Makani

Google parent company Alphabet has dropped kite-based wind-power systems developer Makani f... flights of its 600kW carbon-tether kite from a floating platform off the coast of Norway.....

Makani prepares for launch with offshore tests

. However, instead of mounting a traditional wind turbine on the platform, a carbon fibre kit...

Soaring high with kite-wind test flight

Makani has declared the offshore test flights of its 600kW kite-wind demonstrator a success...Makani ran two test flights of its kite-wind technology off the coast of Norway, with the 6...

Oil and gas contractor exploring kite wind potential

The Italian partners plan to use kites flying at heights of over 1km that are connected......

Shell invests in kite-power pioneer Makani

A leading developer of kite-based wind-power systems, Makani, has been set up as an indepen... its kite system from a proof of concept model to a commercial-scale prototype. The desi...

Safe havens for protected birds?

to encourage the birds to go elsewhere. In contrast, the red kite can be drawn away by ...

EnBW joins kite-wind project

GERMANY: Developer-utility EnBW has launched a research project to support the development of a high.... A single 100kW fully automated kite turbine is expected to be in testing by 2020. E...

Floating offshore takes to the skies

crosswind, figure-eight pattern at 250-500-metre altitudes. This kite-derived principle mi...

Renewables policies needed for heating and transport sectors

through the use of "sails, kites and Flettner rotors" — a cylindrical rotor which is...

Viewpoint: Keeping the pressure on innovation to cut costs

those using kite-based technology, has revealed that once commercial, using airborne techn...

Middle East ripe for wind-powered kite systems

MIDDLE EAST: Airborne wind energy systems such as tethered kites could provide an alternati..., it claims. Elsewhere, Shell-backed UK firm Kite Power Systems trialled a single 500kW ...

Shell-backed kite system to be trialled in the summer

UK: A 500kW pilot project in Scotland will use kites to produce electricity in a project ba...The single turbine pilot, developed by UK firm Kite Power Systems (KPS), will be installed....

Backpage: The last word in wind - January 2017

WORLDWIDE: Climate deniers tighten grip on power; Royal Dutch Shell goes to fly a kite; and... go fly a kite Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s largest oil company, has been making...

Windtech: Testing beyond commercial risk

. The kite wind power systems researched at the Delft University of Technology and a Eur...

Google-owned Makani expands operations

Hardham. Makani completed the first fully autonomous flight of a 30kW kite power system...