Kitepower

Kitepower’s Airborne Wind Energy is incredibly flexible and unbelievably powerful. For me, the transition to a sustainable future requires moving away from centralized fossil or nuclear power plants towards decentralized renewable energy farms. There are few energy sources out there that can provide electricity in a sustainable way while also becoming large-scale contributors to the energy mix of the future: solar and wind. For the lack of efficient solar energy collectors, we got used to burn fossil fuels to “fire” our economy. But those times are coming to an end and we have to find methods to convert the power of the sun directly. Solar panels are a valid option but their material and space efficiency is low compared to airborne wind energy. To power 150 households, PV panels need 109 t of material and 3140 m2 of ground space, compared to 15 t and 49 m2 for Kitepower.