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Considerable interest in Kitemill at exhibition in USA

There was great interest in Kitemills technology as its CEO Thomas Hårklau held a presentation about the company at the annual technology trade show IDTechEx in the United States. The fair was held in mid-November 2015 in Santa Clara Conventional Centre just off San Francisco and collected all 3000 participants.

Hårklau's presentation

 

-On the basis of the questions raised after my presentation, I got a clear understanding that it was particularly our need for airspace that they wanted to know more about. To this I replied with a very concrete example, from our permit from the Civil Aviation Authority to kiting over Ribland Farm in Sokndal municipality, says Thomas Hårklau.

 

1000 meters altitude, radius of 1.6 km

Kitemill received in March 2015 permission of the CAA to operate kites within a limit of 3000 feet with a radius of 1 nautic mile. This corresponds to about 1000 meters altitude and a radius of 1.9 kilometers. This shows that there is no need for large air space for conducting kite plant to produce power, in a very inexpensive way.

25 December 2020 09:30

Successfully passed 125 flights in 2020

After Kitemill's kite number 5 in the KM1 series "Spark 5" completed its first flight in mid-December, the company has completed over 125 flights over Lista in 2020. Kite number 4 in the KM1 series...

28 November 2020 21:21

LIDAR campaign at Lista

In mid-November 2020, PhD student Jan Markus Diezel started measuring the speed of the wind over Lista Airport based on LIDAR measurements. LIDAR is basically the same technology that self-driving ...

23 October 2020 16:02

- Kitemill is truly sector leading

The highly respected Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) expert David Ainsworth is now a senior advisor for Kitemill. The company general manager, Thomas Hårklau, is very pleased that David Ainsworth now is...

18 September 2020 14:34

The KM1 Spark kite automatic launch and landing

A strong focus of engineering of a more robust kite system pays off with great results in our August 2020 test campaings.

15 September 2020 16:10

New QHSE manager with long management experience from Avinor

Otto de Besche is Kitemill's new quality manager, with responsibility for the company's quality, health, environment and safety. He has over 40 years of experience from the air traffic service, Avi...

11 August 2020 09:22

The IEA focuses on airborne wind in large energy workshop

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is now putting a sharp focus on airborne wind energy in a large conference that will be held digitally on 23. and 24. September 2020. On the landing page of th...