Since our last update, we’ve made a lot of progress testing our 600 kW energy kite.

Originally shared by Makani

Since our last update, we’ve made a lot of progress testing our 600 kW energy kite. Recently, we generated power with the kite for the first time. It’s the culmination of two years of work scaling up each of the kite’s component systems, testing each system individually, and running thousands of hours of flight simulations to predict how our kite would operate in the real world. No matter how many preliminary tests and simulations you run, it’s always exhilarating to bring a new technology out into real world conditions. Check out this video of Makani’s 600 kW energy kite generating electricity for the first time. This was the first of many tests we are doing with our latest prototype to gain a better understanding how the kite interacts with the wind and how our controls handle different wind conditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An8vtD1FDqs&feature=autoshare