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creators_name: Fagiano, Lorenzo
creators_name: Milanese, Mario
creators_name: Piga, Dario
creators_id: 
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creators_id: dario.piga@imtlucca.it
title: High-Altitude wind power generation
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
subjects: TK
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
keywords: High-altitude wind energy; wind energy; wind power generation
abstract: 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.
date: 2010-03
date_type: published
publication: IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
volume: 25
number: 1
publisher: IEEE
pagerange: 168-180
id_number: 10.1109/TEC.2009.2032582
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0885-8969
official_url: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5350676&isnumber=5416618
citation:   Fagiano, Lorenzo and Milanese, Mario and Piga, Dario  High-Altitude wind power generation.  IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 25 (1).  pp. 168-180.  ISSN 0885-8969      (2010)