AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Affordable & Clean Energy
KEYWORDS
energy, renewable energy , Affordable
COUNTRY
Denmark
DESIGNED BY
Andreas Bruun Okholm, Gustaf Kugelberg
WEBSITE
https://kitex.tech/
KiteX
Mobile wind energy.
We are developing drone wind energy in order to create a future where renewable energy is the most cost effective option. Cheaper energy will help societies reduce the average amount of “hard” work required to sustain a given living standard, freeing up time for more valuable pursuits. We find the reflections in these answers quite interesting: If energy was free. We are building a new type of flying wind turbine that can make wind power accessible for many more locations, as well as significantly cheaper. It utilises drone technology to autonomously control a flying wing tethered to the ground, and this wing acts as the blade of a traditional wind turbine. Because it needs no tower, only a small foundation and uses its “blades” (the wings) much more efficiently, it only needs a fraction of the material of a conventional system, for the same power output. This is where costs are saved, and it is the reason it can be installed almost anywhere.