EnerKíte, Portrait of the Company

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EnerKíte. Portrait of the Company.

Alexander Bormann Enerkite

This presentation portrays the company EnerKíte which set out in 2010 to build an mobile AWEC prototype using a three-line actuated system, the EK30.  The history of the company until now, will be outlined as well the company goals and the design decisions that led to the construction of the current prototype. The results of the first year of operation in three countries and at 5 different sites within Europe will be pre-sented, including progress in controller development as well as flight data plots of trajectories and power quantities. Final-ly an overview about the recent activities and cooperations and the planned product line and applications are given. Alexander Bormann

Has become an aircraft mechanic in 1987 and studied aer-onautical and wind engineering in Kiev (Ucraine) and Berlin (Germany) respectively. He degreed with its PhD in the field of structural mechanics from TU Berlin in 2004. Involvement

in wind engineering thru the working group of Prof. Rob-ert Gasch were he has become an research assistent since 1993. His first international publication was about innovative tower concepts of megawatt wind turbines in 1995 togeth-er with Andreas Reuttogeth-er (today Fraunhoftogeth-er IWES). Since that time he was investigating ways to solve the transport and erecting issues of wind turbines and engaged in the develop-ment of innovative concepts for lighter than air transport. His first company aeroix became known for revolutionary bouy-ancy concepts, innovative technical textiles and the develop-ment of the first autonomous kite system CyberKíte - in coop-eration with Festo. After the successful roboted flights from early 2008 on the focus shifted towards energy generation. As a cofounder and CEO of EnerKíte since 2010 he shapes his vision for resource efficient and cost effective wind energy generation.