KiteGen Research S.r.l.

📍 Torino, Italy🗓 Founded 2006👥 6 employees💰 Last funded Feb 2015

KiteGen® is the latest evolution of wind energy exploitation. It is a radically new and innovative concept that may be the most practical and effective solution, in the market of renewable sources, to the world’s energy needs and problems. The main innovation is given by the fact that KiteGen can exploit an unexploited, virtually endless and almost universally available energy power: high altitude winds. In order to exploit this huge amount of energy a radical change of perspective has been done: no more heavy and static structures but light and dynamic machines. Large wings, driven by a high-tech control system based on avionic sensors, fly at high altitude, harvesting the energy of powerful winds, much faster and constant than those available to traditional wind mills. KiteGen’s vision is a new type of electric generation plant, based on a renewable source, suitable for any territory, at costs lower than fossil fuel generation plants, in direct competition with today’s conventional production (coal, oil or nuclear), in the GigaWatt class.

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