26 Carlo Perassi WOW SpA Wind Operations Worldwide SpA Corso Buenos Aires, 37 20124 Milano (MI) Italy carlo@wow.pe http://www.wow.pe/
5 Years financing Airborne Wind Energy Projects
Carlo Perassi WOW SpA
Abstract for the Airborne Wind Energy Conference AWEC 2013 in Berlin Wind Operations Worldwide S.p.A. - WOW SpA, see http://wow.pe/ - is a financial holding, founded in Leghorn, as WOW Srl, on 23rd May 2008 and turned into WOW SpA on 31st October 2009.
It was the first worldwide and it is still one of the few fi-nancial holdings founded to support the airborne wind en-ergy industry.
This short presentation is going to describe the projects it is funding, focusing on what emerged during the last two
years, since the last time an AWEC Conference took place in Europe (Leuven, 2011).
The central part of the talk regards our current activities: in Calabria, with a project merging AWE and agriculture; in Tuscany, where a second project involves AWE and sailing; in the USA, describing the results of our partnerships with American AWE companies.
The closing part of the talk describes what the “Italian AWE test field” would be, ending with a few predictions, saving a few minutes for questions and answers.
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