TY  - JOUR
JF  - IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
IS  - 1
Y1  - 2010/03//
SP  - 168
A1  - Fagiano, Lorenzo
A1  - Milanese, Mario
A1  - Piga, Dario
PB  - IEEE
VL  - 25
UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5350676&isnumber=5416618
TI  - High-Altitude wind power generation
AV  - none
KW  - High-altitude wind energy; wind energy; wind power generation
N2  - 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.
SN  - 0885-8969
EP  - 180
ID  - eprints2463
ER  -