Høydevindens Fremtid: Metoder og Verifikasjon for Skalerbar Vindenergi

Offentlig prosjektsammendrag

Kitemill develops airborne wind energy, a technology that uses tethered kites to harvest strong winds high above the ground. This project (2025–2027) continues directly from our previous SkatteFUNN project (349439, 2023–2024), which was approved as industrial research. The new project focuses on creating the methods and tools that will make airborne wind energy safe, efficient, and ready to scale. We will strengthen digital simulation and verification, explore new lightweight materials and production methods, and test procedures for automated operation and safe coordination of several systems at our Lista site. By developing these frameworks, Kitemill ensures that future airborne wind systems can be designed, tested, and qualified in a systematic and reliable way. The results will accelerate research, reduce risks, and prepare the ground for future commercial solutions — while this project itself remains focused on research and method development.