Kitegen received about 15 million euro in funding and it looks like they will have a 3 megawatt stem built in 2010. How large is a Kite Gen power plant? It depends of the configuration. A wind farm of ...

China has successfully completed flight tests of the world’s largest power-generating kite, marking a breakthrough in high-altitude wind energy technology. The test took place in Alxa Left Banner in ...

Norway forgets about wind turbines for a while, and remembers a wind project with origins in the United States that had made promises of a flying kite producing 600 kW, so as to rewrite the clean ...

New Delhi: China has successfully deployed a 5,000 square metre kite to generate power from high altitude winds while being tethered to the ground. The kite was lifted by a helium balloon and can ...

High-altitude winds remain a huge untapped source of renewable energy, but a race to the sky is well underway. For a child, the simple act of flying a kite can be exhilarating; running and pulling at ...

A German airborne wind power company’s lofty bid to harness the energy generation potential of “strong and steady” high altitude winds has gained the backing of the German energy giant RWE Renewables.