Webinar Title: Airborne Wind Energy: Electricity from Kites and Drones Comes to Market

Date: Tuesday 11 April 2017

Presenter: Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx

 

 

This webinar shares research recently carried out for the new IDTechEx Research report, Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) 2017-2027. Tethered kites and aircraft and the like can produce electricity from the stronger and more consistent winds higher than those reached by conventional wind turbines. They can be made almost invisible and silent and they use one tenth of the materials. That means they can at least double the number of places where wind power can be viably captured. Some can self-launch even when ground wind is zero and autonomous flying and landing are being demonstrated. We therefore have the groundwork for operation where conventional wind turbines have inadequate wind or are too ugly and noisy and use as replacement for some diesel gensets, sometimes in combination with solar. Cost of electricity produced is likely to be very low eventually and there are other benefits but also technical challenges.

 

This webinar will cover:

 

1. Pros and cons of the technical options from cloth kites to fixed wing, multicopter and balloon aerostat.

2. Two very different systems needed for two very different tasks: Low power off-grid mobile genset and wind farm on-grid high power.

3. Why AWE will never fully replace conventional wind turbines.

4. First commercial sales 2017-8. Who? What?

5. Market potential.

 

 

We will be holding exactly the same webinar twice in one day. Please register for which ever session is most convenient for you.

 

Date: Tuesday 11 April 2017

Duration: 30 minutes plus 10 minutes for Q&A

 

 

10:00am (BST, GMT +1) London

11:00am (GMT +2) Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome

12:00 noon (GMT +3) Athens, Jerusalem

5:00pm (GMT +8) Bangkok

6:00pm (GMT+9) Singapore, Taipei, Beijing

7:00pm (GMT+10) Tokyo, Seoul

9:00pm (GMT+12) Canberra

 

 

 

9:00am (Pacific DT) USA & Canada

10:00am (Mountain DT) USA & Canada

11:00am (Central DT) USA & Canada

12:00noon (Eastern DT) USA & Canada

5:00pm (BST, GMT + 1) London