Author : Yash Muthe, Suhas Mali and Vikram Kolhe

This paper provides an overview of Energy Kites, a revolutionary technique of power generation. With growing technological innovations & carbon footprints, energy at a cheaper rate with negligible green house effect have become vital. Leading energy companies are showing great concern to this idea of energy generation & hence a revolution has set out for a breakthrough technological solution for this problem. Out of all innovative ideas one major idea that’s gaining great attention is Airborne wind energy.Replacing the traditional structure of wind turbine by Kites tethered to ground is the main idea behind Airborne wind energy. Airborne wind technology gives a power output of 600 KW with wind speed of 11.5m/sec which can be increased significantly by achieving great altitudes unliketraditional structures that are limited to height of few meters.Also due to absence of bulky tower & huge blades,energy Kite offers much more mass to power ratio. This energy generation gives a promising power output from wind making complete use of air velocity at an comparatively higher altitude. Google has nearly invested $15 million in the Makani power for airborne wind energy.

Keywords: Airborne, Energy Kite, Tether.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.6, No.5 (Oct-2016)