Scotland built a kite-powered power plant

A kite-powered power plant at half the cost of using wind energy will be built in Scotland.

One of the world's first kerosene-powered commercial power plants will be built in Stranraer, Scotland, on October 6. This could be a big step forward in the search for solutions to human energy problems.

One of the first kite-powered power plants in the world to be built in Scotland. (Photo: Kite Power Solutions Ltd 2015).

A project called Kite Power Systems was developed by Kite Power Solutions. They launched a small kite-powered power plant in Essex, England.

The plant operates by dropping flying kites at altitudes up to 450 m as shown in Figure 8. As they fly up, they pull the rope to rotate the turbine, generating electricity. With two kites working in parallel, this one flies up and the other goes down, the current is generated continuously.

A large kite with wingspan of 40m is capable of generating 2-3 megawatts of electricity. The area of more than 1,000 kites could produce the same amount of electricity as the Hinkey Point C nuclear power plant if the winds were blowing continuously.

David Ainsworth, the sales manager for Kite Power Solutions, believes the cost of their system may be only half that of using wind energy.

"It's going to be tax-free, but we do not really need government support. Our potential investors believe it will grow strongly in the future , " David said.