Kite Turbine Innovation

Automated Kite Turbine

Our 50kW Kite Turbine has a projected LCOE of 5p/kWh - a third the cost of an equivalent conventional turbine.

Kite Turbines exploit tensile design for minimal mass. This gives a power-to-weight ratio of 2kW/kg.

Play with a Kite Turbine

Benefits

Automated deployment for safe scaling to 50kW
Fast install with NO foundation, no road or tower and only short blades to transport
The 50kW systems will have the lowest cost of energy in the small turbine wind market
Multiple lines and multiple anchors avoid single point failures. Back lines stop breakaways
Robust function even if a line breaks. Modular maintenance at ground level.

Efficient

Stacking more kites on a line = Less line drag per kite.

Safe to operate

Kite turbines can fly in CAA ANO CAP393 compliance.
Every part is networked so no part can break free.

Lightweight

The scaling dynamics were first described by Ollie during his PhD in Strathclyde.
Read our paper in Energies Journal

Kite Turbines
Enable Scale

Airborne Wind Energy Systems can scale by using networks of kites.

Keeping blade sizes consistent with most probable wind energy keeps mass low.

Mechanical autogyro kites are easy to automate for larger deployments.

Read our 10kW Automated System Design Reasoning Report

You can build and test Turbines <1kW yourself.

Patent Published and Still Developing.

This technology has huge potential benefits in our climate crisis. We need you onboard. Work with us to realise the scale our patented automation systems will bring to Kite Turbines.

We can do great things working together.
You can build and test Turbines <1kW on your own too.

The software used to control Daisy Kite turbine can be found on our GitHub. Our early designs (mechanically autonomous and <1kW) are freely available on Hackaday and registered as open source hardware with OSHWA

Patent GitHub Hackaday