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Kitekraft Wins 2024 Elektra Award for Power System Product of the Year

Kitekraft’s groundbreaking flying wind turbines enable clean energy transmission using Vicor power modules Kitekraft to enable the world's transition to 100% clean energy using renewable airborne wind power systems. Now, Kitekraft won the 2024 Elektra Award for Power System Product of the Year, at a ceremony in London hosted by Electronics Weekly magazine.

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Kitekraft receives Permit to Fly at Night and Automatically without Personnel on Site

The permit includes authorization to fly at night, fully automatically, and without personnel on site, marking a pivotal moment for the company's path to commercialization.

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First grid-connected flight with power production

Kitekraft has completed a first flight with its recently installed grid connection. Even though wind conditions were not ideal, some power was generated and fed into the German power grid.

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Kitekraft Connects Flying Wind Turbine Demonstrator to Public Grid

As a first of its kind, Kitekraft connected its test site to Germany's public electricity grid. This marks a crucial step towards the commercialization of Kitekraft's flying wind turbine technology.

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The next phase

Kitekraft enters into a new phase towards building commercially available flying wind turbines as we are excited to present our new, fully integrated prototype, bringing together kite and ground station. With this our focus shifts from the conceptual development towards improving reliability and efficiency instead.

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Kitekraft raises $1.6M to make wind turbines that fly

Kitekraft, the Munich-based renewable energy startup building flying wind turbines, has raised $1.6 million to continue its development towards a first pilot installation.

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Kitekraft Completes Flight in Figure-Eights

We hit a major milestone by completing our first figure-eight flight. We are proud that we came to this point in just over one year after company foundation. Below is a video.

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Kitekraft Takes Off — With Y Combinator and Beyond

With this blog post we want to share the latest developments around Kitekraft and how this idea is literally “taking off” and became a reality.

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The Kitekraft Master Plan

Find out about the idea behind Kitekraft's approach: Enabled by our efficient design we want to start with smaller systems. Then scale up. Then scale up again. And continue to do so until we reach the MW range.

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Kitekraft Unveils 5kW Kite

Today’s energy generation is dirty. Renewable energy technologies are not yet cost-effective enough and are therefore not deployed fast enough. According to climate scientists, only a few decades are left to reduce global anthropogenic CO2 emissions to zero, so that we achieve the 2°C goal and prevent the tipping of our planet’s climate. This is a short time span for achieving such a goal, which is only possible through improved renewable energy technologies.