AWE-based plants and scaling

The second set of objectives is focused on AWE-based plants and scaling. To contribute to the power grid, the technology needs to produce grid-scale and grid-serving electrical power generation. The research into AWE-based plants will be ground-breaking due to the novelty of this technology. To be successful, economies of scale must be exploited. For conventional wind energy, scale allowed rotors to reach better wind resources at higher altitudes. However, since AWE already operates further from the ground, it is unclear whether the economies of scale arise via the efficiency of larger devices or the mass manufacturing of many smaller devices.

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