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| 1. | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS |
| 1.1. | Definition and characteristics |
| 1.1. | Examples of photovoltaics providing total power requirements of a vehicle, including motive power |
| 1.1. | Examples of uses of HPEH expressed as duration of harvesting available with examples of companies using or developing these applications |
| 1.1.1. | Definition |
| 1.1.2. | Overview of need |
| 1.1.3. | Characteristics |
| 1.2. | Market overview |
| 1.2. | Comparison of desirable features of the EH technologies. Good in colour. Others are poor or not yet clarified. |
| 1.2. | Examples of applications being developed 10W-100kW |
| 1.2.1. | Largest value market by power |
| 1.3. | Maturity of market by application |
| 1.3. | Technology focus of 200 organisations developing the different leading energy harvesting technologies |
| 1.3. | Transducer power range of the main technical options for HPEH transducer technologies Source IDTechEx |
| 1.4. | Potential for improving energy harvesting efficiency |
| 1.4. | Maturity of different forms of energy harvesting |
| 1.4. | Hype curve for energy harvesting applications |
| 1.5. | EH systems |
| 1.5. | Hype curve snapshot for high power energy harvesting applications in 2015-6 |
| 1.5. | Typical power needs increasingly addressed by high power energy harvesting |
| 1.6. | Power end game 2026 with winners shown in green. Areas with some activity but not dominant are shown clear |
| 1.6. | Hype curve snapshot for high power energy harvesting applications in 2026 |
| 1.6. | Multiple energy harvesting |
| 1.7. | Market forecast 2016-2026 |
| 1.7. | Hype curve for HPEH technology 2016 |
| 1.7. | Power density provided by different forms of HPEH with exceptionally useful superlatives in yellow. Other parameters are optimal at different levels depending on system design. |
| 1.7.1. | The big picture |
| 1.7.2. | Forecasts by technology |
| 1.7.3. | Overall market for transducers |
| 1.7.4. | Market for power conditioning |
| 1.8. | Technology timeline 2016-2025 |
| 1.8. | Good features and challenges of the four most important EH technologies in order of importance |
| 1.8. | Hype curve for HPEH technology 2026 |
| 1.9. | Institutions involved in airborne wind energy in 2015 |
| 1.9. | Proliferation of electrodynamic harvesting options |
| 1.9. | Detailed technology sector forecasts 2015-2025 |
| 1.9.1. | Electrodynamic |
| 1.9.2. | Photovoltaic |
| 1.9.3. | Thermoelectrics |
| 1.9.4. | Territorial differences |
| 1.10. | Global market for energy harvesting transducers at all power levels (units million) 2015-2026 rounded |
| 1.10. | Proliferation of actual and potential energy harvesting in land vehicles |
| 1.11. | Proliferation of actual and potential energy harvesting in marine vehicles |
| 1.11. | Global market for energy harvesting transducers at all power levels (unit price dollars) 2015-2026 |
| 1.12. | Global value market for energy harvesting transducers at all power levels (market value billion dollars) 2015-2026 rounded |
| 1.12. | Proliferation of actual and potential energy harvesting in airborne vehicles |
| 1.13. | EH system diagram |
| 1.13. | Main contributors to EH transducer sales 2015-2026. The technologies supplied by many large companies taking substantial orders are highlighted in orange. |
| 1.14. | Timeline 2016-2025 with those advances most greatly impacting market size shown in yellow. |
| 1.14. | Multiple energy harvesting |
| 1.15. | HPP structure |
| 1.15. | Electrodynamics for Energy Harvesting units millions 2015-2025, dominant numbers in 2025 in yellow. |
| 1.16. | Electrodynamic EH for regenerative braking in electric vehicles 2015-2025 number thousand |
| 1.16. | HPP envisaged application in buildings |
| 1.17. | Envisaged marine application of HPP |
| 1.17. | Electrodynamic EH for regenerative braking in electric vehicles 2015-2025 notional unit value dollars given that these motors and generators double as other functions |
| 1.18. | Notional total market value for electrodynamic EH for regenerative braking in electric vehicles 2015-2025 $ billion rounded |
| 1.18. | HPEH including battery systems related to other off-grid and to on-grid harvesting market values in 2016 |
| 1.19. | Global installed renewable energy GW cumulative, off-grid and on-grid by source |
| 1.19. | Electrodynamic harvesting alternators in conventional internal combustion engined vehicles, number, notional unit value $ and value market $ billion 2015-2025 |
| 1.20. | Electrodynamic harvesting Other, mainly energy harvesting shock absorbers, number, notional unit value $ and value market $ billion 2015-2025 |
| 1.20. | Global market for energy harvesting transducers at all power levels (units million) 2015-2026 rounded |
| 1.21. | Global market for energy harvesting transducers at all power levels (unit price dollars) 2015-2026 |
| 1.21. | Photovoltaics for Energy Harvesting MW peak million 2015-2025 |
| 1.22. | Thermoelectrics for Energy Harvesting units thousand 2015-2025 |
| 1.22. | Global value market for energy harvesting transducers at all power levels (market value billion dollars) 2015-2026 rounded |
| 1.23. | Energy harvesting organisations by continent |
| 1.23. | Thermoelectrics for Energy Harvesting units value dollars 2015-2025 |
| 1.24. | Thermoelectrics for Energy Harvesting total value thousands of dollars 2015-2025 |
| 1.24. | Organisations active in energy harvesting by country, numbers rounded |
| 1.25. | Innovations continue for multi-mode harvesting. Solar wind turbine concepts. |
| 1.25. | Some highlights of global effort on energy harvesting |
| 2. | INTRODUCTION |
| 2.1. | HPEH Technology |
| 2.1. | Maturity of HPEH technologies in adoption and development not age. Off-grid only with electricity used where made. |
| 2.1. | The performance of the favourite energy harvesting technologies. Technologies with no moving parts are shown in red. Thermoelectric not so good when it needs fins or water cooling. |
| 2.2. | Typical energy harvesting system |
| 2.2. | Power density provided by different forms of high power energy harvesting. Best volumetric and gravimetric energy density. |
| 2.2. | Technologies compared |
| 2.2.1. | Parametric |
| 2.2.2. | System design: transducer, power conditioning, energy storage |
| 2.3. | Mature technologies |
| 2.3. | Some classical applications with the type of transducer and energy storage typically chosen |
| 2.3. | The Trinity wind turbine is light and portable, for powering mobile devices and cars |
| 2.3.1. | Wind turbines, rotary blade |
| 2.3.2. | Portable wind turbine for clean energy anywhere |
| 2.3.3. | Conventional photovoltaics |
| 2.3.4. | Regenerative braking |
| 2.4. | A glimpse of the future: Lizard Electric Vehicles |
| 2.4. | Simplest scheme for vehicle regenerative braking |
| 2.5. | Nissan Lithium-ion forklift with regenerative braking |
| 2.5. | Off-grid wave harvesting |
| 2.5.1. | Introduction |
| 2.5.2. | Dielectric Elastomer Generators DEG |
| 2.5.3. | CorPower Ocean Sweden |
| 2.5.4. | Levant Power USA |
| 2.5.5. | National Agency for New Energy Technologies (ENEA) Italy |
| 2.5.6. | Oscilla Power USA magnetorestrictive |
| 2.6. | HPEH in context: IRENA Roadmap to 27% Renewable |
| 2.6. | Mazda supercapacitor-based energy harvesting from reversing alternator during coasting and braking in a conventional car |
| 2.7. | Regen braking research |
| 2.7. | Electric vehicle end game: free non-stop road travel |
| 2.8. | Simpler, More Viable Off-grid Power in 2016 |
| 2.8. | How EIVs relate to traditional mechanically energy independent vehicles and segment into sub-types. |
| 2.9. | Carboline honeycomb of ultra-lightweight carbon fiber construction without the planned integral photovoltaics taking sun reflected from wide angles by foil on the sloped surfaces |
| 2.9. | Tesla the Follower |
| 2.10. | Poly-OWC |
| 2.11. | SBM water-filled WPG using roll to roll manufactured EAP |
| 2.12. | Energy harvesting from Levant Power |
| 2.13. | Pendulum Wave Energy Converter (PEWEC) |
| 2.14. | Triton |
| 2.15. | Annual share of annual variable renewable power generation on-grid and off-grid 2014 and 2030 if all Remap options are implemented |
| 2.16. | Hanergy Holding Group Ltd. is a multinational clean energy company |
| 3. | ELECTRODYNAMIC HARVESTING |
| 3.1. | Definition and scope |
| 3.1. | TIGER device and system diagram |
| 3.1. | Some modes of high power, 10 watts or more, electrodynamic energy harvesting with related processes highlighted in green |
| 3.2. | Examples of actual high power electrodynamic harvesting by type, sub type and manufacturer with comment. Those in volume production now are in yellow, within five years in grey, those with much development but no volume production |
| 3.2. | Oshkosh hybrid truck |
| 3.2. | Many modes and applications compared |
| 3.2.1. | Options by medium |
| 3.2.2. | Examples compared |
| 3.3. | Flywheel KERS |
| 3.3. | Electraflyer Trike |
| 3.4. | Electraflyer uncowled |
| 3.4. | Active regenerative suspension: Levant Power USA |
| 3.5. | Audi regenerative suspension |
| 3.5. | Flywheels compared with other energy storage |
| 3.6. | GKN Gyrodrive breakdown |
| 3.6. | Airborne Wind Energy AWE |
| 3.6.1. | Kite-surfing in the stratosphere |
| 3.7. | Favoured technologies |
| 3.7. | Flybrid parallel hybrid flywheel |
| 3.7.1. | Billions in Change |
| 3.7.2. | EnerKite Germany |
| 3.7.3. | Google Makani USA |
| 3.7.4. | e-Wind USA |
| 3.7.5. | TwingTec Switzerland |
| 3.7.6. | Ampyx Power Netherlands |
| 3.7.7. | Altaeros USA |
| 3.7.8. | Kitemill Norway |
| 3.7.9. | Kitegen Italy |
| 3.7.10. | Commercialisation targets in 2015 |
| 3.7.11. | IDTechEx assessment |
| 3.7.12. | ABB assessment |
| 3.8. | Energy harvesting shock absorbers |
| 3.8. | Battery progress |
| 3.8.1. | Linear shock absorbers |
| 3.8.2. | Rotary shock absorbers |
| 3.8.3. | Tenneco Automotive Operating Company USA |
| 3.9. | Witt Energy UK |
| 3.9. | Volvo Flywheel KERS components |
| 3.10. | Volvo flywheel KERS system layout |
| 3.11. | Magneto Marelli electrical KERS Motor Generator Unit |
| 3.12. | The Marelli system |
| 3.13. | Williams Formula One KERS flywheel |
| 3.14. | GenShock prototype held by Humvee coil spring where it is installed |
| 3.15. | Levant Power GenShock energy harvesting shock absorber |
| 3.16. | AWE conference |
| 3.17. | View of AWE risks |
| 3.18. | E-kite ground station |
| 3.19. | EnerKite presentation |
| 3.20. | Google Makani M600 prototype |
| 3.21. | e-Wind proposition hiring land from farmers |
| 3.22. | Twingtec USP |
| 3.23. | Ampyx slides - examples |
| 3.24. | Altaeros presentation |
| 3.25. | Altaeros BAT airborne wind turbine compared |
| 3.26. | Kitemill presentation |
| 3.27. | Kitegen kite providing supplementary power to a ship |
| 3.28. | ABB assessment |
| 3.29. | Tether drag solution |
| 3.30. | Power potential of energy harvesting shock absorbers |
| 3.31. | Energy harvesting shock absorbers being progressed by the State University of New York |
| 3.32. | Tufts University and Electric Truck energy harvesting shock absorbers |
| 3.33. | Wattshocks electricity generating shock absorber |
| 3.34. | Wattshocks publicity |
| 3.35. | On-road test SUV |
| 3.36. | Witt presentation at IDTechEx event Berlin April 2015 - extracts |
| 4. | PHOTOVOLTAIC HARVESTING |
| 4.1. | Photovoltaic |
| 4.1. | Kopf Solarshiff pure electric solar powered lake boats in Germany and the UK for up to 150 people |
| 4.1. | Comparison of pn junction and photoelectrochemical photovoltaics |
| 4.1.1. | Flexible, conformal, transparent, UV, IR |
| 4.1.2. | Technological options |
| 4.1.3. | Principles of operation |
| 4.1.4. | Options for flexible PV |
| 4.1.5. | Many types of photovoltaics needed for harvesting |
| 4.1.6. | Spray on power for electric vehicles and more |
| 4.1.7. | New world record for both sides-contacted silicon solar cells |
| 4.2. | Powerweave harvesting and storage e-fiber/ e-textile |
| 4.2. | The main options for photovoltaics beyond conventional silicon compared |
| 4.2. | NREL adjudication of efficiencies under standard conditions |
| 4.3. | Powerweave |
| 4.3. | Solar roads find many uses |
| 4.4. | Non-toxic and cheap thin-film solar cells |
| 4.4. | Solar roads |
| 5. | THERMOELECTRIC HARVESTING |
| 5.1. | The Seebeck and Peltier effects |
| 5.1. | Representation of the Peltier (left) and the Seebeck (right) effect |
| 5.2. | 1 kW ATEG |
| 5.2. | Highest power thermoelectrics |
| 5.3. | Designing for thermoelectric applications |
| 5.3. | Anatomy of high power ATEG |
| 5.4. | A general overview of the sequential manufacturing steps required in the construction of thermoelectric generators |
| 5.4. | Material choices |
| 5.5. | Other processing techniques |
| 5.5. | Generic schematic of thermoelectric energy harvesting system |
| 5.6. | Figure of merit for some thermoelectric material systems |
| 5.6. | Manufacturing of flexible thermoelectric generators |
| 5.7. | AIST technology details |
| 5.7. | Orientation map from a skutterudite sample |
| 5.8. | Power Density and Sensitivity plotted for a variety of TEGs at a ΔT=30K |
| 5.8. | Automotive applications |
| 5.8.1. | BMW Germany |
| 5.8.2. | Ford USA |
| 5.8.3. | Volkswagen Germany |
| 5.8.4. | Challenges of Thermoelectrics for Vehicles |
| 5.8.5. | Marlow Industries USA |
| 5.9. | Building and home automation |
| 5.9. | % of Carnot efficiency for thermogenerators for different material systems |
| 5.10. | Schematic of the inside of a typical thermoelectric element |
| 5.10. | Solar TEG |
| 5.11. | The fabrication method of the CNT-polymer composite material (top), and an electron microscope image of its surface (lower) |
| 5.12. | A flexible thermoelectric conversion film fabricated by using a printing process (left) and its electrical power-generation ability (right). A temperature difference created by placing a hand on the film installed on the 10 °C pla |
| 5.13. | Energy losses in a vehicle |
| 5.14. | Opportunities to harvest waste energy |
| 5.15. | Ford Fusion, BMW X6 and Chevrolet Suburban. US Department of Energy thermoelectric generator programs |
| 5.16. | Pictures from the BMW thermogenerator developments, as part of EfficientDynamics |
| 5.17. | Ford's anticipate 500W power output from their thermogenerator |
| 5.18. | The complete TEG designed by Amerigon |
| 5.19. | High and medium temperature TE engines |
| 5.20. | The EverGen PowerStrap from Marlow |
| 5.21. | EverGen exchangers can vary in sizes from a few cubic inches to several cubic feet. Pictured also, a schematic of a TEG exchanger's main components |
| 5.22. | The en:key products: A thermoelectric powered radiator valve and solar powered central control unit for home automation applications |
| 5.23. | Thermoelectric Energy harvesting on hot water/gas pipes |
| 5.24. | MIT solar TEG |
| 6. | GEOTHERMAL AND OTHER |
| 6.1. | Geothermal |
| 6.1. | Makai's Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power plant |
| 6.1.1. | World's largest ocean thermal plant |
| 6.2. | Magnetostrictive |
| 6.2. | Villari effect |
| 6.3. | Rectenna, nantenna-diode pairs for energy harvesting of light |
| 6.3. | Nantenna-diode rectenna arrays |
| 6.3.1. | Idaho State Laboratory, University of Missouri, University of Colorado, Microcontinuum |
| 6.3.2. | University of Maryland |
| 6.4. | Thermoacoustic |
| 6.4. | Infrared rectenna harvesting |
| 6.5. | BH03 EH concept tire |
| 6.5. | Electricity from car tires |
| 6.5.1. | Tire EH Goodyear concept 2016 |
| 6.6. | Not quite energy harvesting: microbial fuel cells, directed RF, betavoltaics |
| 6.6. | Microbial fuel cell concept for producing both electricity and hydrogen for fuel cell electric vehicles etc |
| 7. | MULTI-MODE ENERGY HARVESTING |
| 7.1. | Forms of multi-mode energy harvesting |
| 8. | EXAMPLES OF IDTECHEX INTERVIEWS AND EH RESEARCH IN 2015 |
| 8.1. | Agusta Westland Italy |
| 8.1. | BEHA aircraft |
| 8.2. | Solar facilities |
| 8.2. | Enerbee France |
| 8.3. | Eight19 UK |
| 8.3. | IFEVS arguments |
| 8.4. | Uniques of thermoelectric harvesting |
| 8.4. | Faradair Aerospace UK |
| 8.5. | IFEVS Italy |
| 8.5. | RMT range and positioning |
| 8.6. | Ground spikes as energy harvesting powered transmitters |
| 8.6. | Jabil USA |
| 8.7. | Komatsu KELK Japan |
| 8.7. | Example given of multi-mode harvesting to come. |
| 8.8. | Torqeedo 50kW outboard |
| 8.8. | LG Chem Korea |
| 8.9. | Marlow USA |
| 8.9. | SoelCat |
| 8.10. | Milper Turkey |
| 8.10. | Pavegen UK |
| 8.11. | Piezotech France |
| 8.11. | Rensea project for regenerative marine propeller |
| 8.12. | Opal conversion |
| 8.12. | RMT Russia and TEC Microsystems Germany |
| 8.13. | Examples of recent research |
| 8.14. | Examples of Interviews Concerning High Power Energy Harvesting on Marine Craft 2015 |
| 8.15. | Examples of presentations at Electric and Hybrid Marine Amsterdam June 2015 |
| PROFILES FROM SOME AIRBORNE WIND ENERGY COMPANIES | |
| IDTECHEX RESEARCH REPORTS AND CONSULTING | |
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| フォーキャスト | 2026 |