List of airborne wind energy organizations

This is a list of airborne wind energy or kite-energy organizations that are advancing airborne wind energy systems (AWES). In 2011 there were over 40 organizations involved worldwide [1], but this number has increased to over 60 in 2017 [2].

Categories of kite-energy or airborne-wind-energy organizations that are forming the nascent industry: education, academic, non-profit, for-profit, communication, research, original kite-energy equipment manufacturer, kite-line manufacturer, industry-wide association, history, testing, forum entity, library, cooperative, consortium, group, club, school, training school.[3]

Generation by kite-energy systems may involve pumping, electricity generators flown in the upper flying system (flygen), electric generators situated on the land or sea or on board a vessel (groundgen), simple lifting of objects (lifting), pulling hulls or other objects (traction), or transportation; systems generate energy to do special tasks. Systems may be scaled from tiny to utility size.

Organizations

Organizations

Name	Location	Start year	Type	Generation	Comment
KPS	Glasgow, United Kingdom	2011	Company	GroundGen	Working towards 500kW system
Scuola Sant'Anna[4]	Pisa, Italy	2013	Research Lab	Flygen	Investigates Dual Drone Systems
Airborne Wind Energy Labs[5]	Texas, USA	2013	Research Lab	Groundgen	Provides calculations of cost per kWh
Altaeros Energies[6]	Massachusetts, USA	2010	Research and OEM	Flygen	MIT and Harvard graduates
AWEIA[7]	Worldwide	2009	Association	All types	Nation chapters
NTS GmbH[8][9]	Germany	2006	Company	Groundgen	X-Wind technology by Uwe Ahrens
TU Delft[10][11]	Delft, The Netherlands	1999	Research group	Groundgen	Wubbo Ockels ✝ , Roland Schmehl
GIPSA-lab[12]	Grenoble, France	2011	Research group	Groundgen	Ahmad Hably
Enerkite[13][14]	Brandenburg, Germany	2009	Company	Groundgen	Alexander Bormann
Energy Kite Systems[15]	Los Angeles, California, USA	1968	Research, communication	All types of AWES	Acquired by Upper Windpower
University of Freiburg[16]	Germany	2011	Research group	Groundgen	Moritz Diehl. The SYSCOP Kite Power activities are within the ERC Project HIGHWIND.[16]
SkySails [17][18]	Hamburg, Germany	2001	Company	Groundgen and hull traction	Stephan Wrage, Thomas Meyer
Makani Power[19][20]	Alameda, California, USA	2006	Company	Flygen	Acquired by Google
KiteLab Group[21]	Ilwaco, Washington, USA	?	R&D	All methods	Rapid open source development of kite energy. Flight encampments. kPower.
Kitepower Enevate BV[22]	Delft, NL	2016	Company	Groundgen	Johannes Peschel, mobile 100kW system, H2020 FTI
Ampyx Power[23]	The Hague, The Netherlands	2008	Company	GroundGen	European fund for regional development
e-kite[24]	The Netherlands	2013	Company	GroundGen	50 kW prototype
KiteGen[25][26][27][28]	Torino, Italy	2003	Private Research- industrial Company	GroundGen; Carousel GW scale	3-MW preseries; 130sqm composite wings, first mover; full patents coverage (3000 worldwide); freedom to operate;
TwingTec[29]	Switzerland	2013	Company	GroundGen	Using tensairity
UpWind Project[30]	Portugal	2014	Research Group	GroundGen	The University of Porto Airborne Wind Energy Project. Investigates multi-kite systems
Windswept and Interesting Limited[31]	United Kingdom	2014	Company	GroundGen FlyGen and Lift Structures	Using Daisy

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15. "Energy Kite systems". Kite Information and Technology Exchange Society of America (KITESA). Retrieved 2016-11-10."kPower, LLC".
16. "Simulation, Optimization and Control of High-Altitude Wind Power Generators". ERC Highwind. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
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29. "TwingTec aims to harvest wind power using kites". Gizmag. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
30. "The University of Porto Airborne Wind Energy Project". UP WIND. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
31. "Windswept and Interesting Limited Open Source AWE Hardware". windswept and interesting ltd. Retrieved 2014-10-07.