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BOSTON - Starting FloDesign Wind, one of several companies who want to shake up the business of wind turbines, said a prototype of a jet engine-inspired turbine was three times more efficient at converting wind energy benefit than traditional designs.
Massachusetts company wants to raise a series B round of $ 25 million this year to deploy and test the real performance of its 150-kilowatt, "said CEO Stanley Kowalski III at the Cleantech Forum conference on Thursday.
FloDesign Wind in the last year has been allocated from the aerospace engineering companies FloDesign, which supplied the components used in military helicopters and fighter jets. Using its experience in the field of aerodynamics, the company is developing a wind turbine that looks more like a jet engine than a typical three-blade turbine.
His plan is to develop a relatively small turbines and selling them for use by enterprises, communities, or wind farm developers. The company is now testing prototypes, and this process will take at least a year, Kowalski said.
"I think it is exciting that there is an oligopoly (among suppliers of wind turbines)," he said in the course of the Panel on Thursday. "There is resistance to change, and this is how all violated, and we hope that one of the intruders."
Utility scale wind farms usually have a giant wind turbines can turn one or two megawatts of electricity - enough to supply hundreds of houses. Unlike FloDesign wind - along with other contenders wind - develops its turbine for use in the field, not very well suited for large turbines, such as the mountain ridge lines, or for customers who want power on the ground, such as municipalities and businesses, "said Kowalski.
FloDesign Wind expects that it can generate power about 40 percent cheaper than traditional turbines, although the performance depends on the location. Part of the lower-value, in order to extract more useful energy from available wind - the company tested a prototype of a turbine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this year and found that it delivered a three-fold improvement over traditional designs, Kowalski said.
The turbine is built around the fan and shroud that surrounds him. It is designed so that air passes through the fan blades and the edges of the shroud. This creates a combination of two speeds of air in the rear of the device, with the air quickly to walk on the edges of the shroud and slow the air passing through the blades. When two streams of air meet, the cause of the rapid mixing of the air will be pulled through a turbine, Kowalski explained. Electricity produced at the ends of the blades instead of using the gearbox.
The product, which has a 60-tion diameter, is made so that it can be transported on standard bed of the truck, which should make installation easier and cheaper than larger turbines. The Company expects that it will be less dangerous to birds and bats, because it will be easier to see, "said Kowalski. He said that should be quieter than traditional turbines, as well.
Taking on staff
FloDesign Wind is one of the start-up wind company trying to crack the wind market through the introduction of various product designs and are designed for different customers than the big suppliers such as Siemens, Vestas and GE, which are sold on a large scale wind farm developers.
Employees have turbines are more and more for years to get more power from the existing space and reduce the cost of delivered electricity. There have been attempts to make a medium-sized turbines large enough to supply the school or community using the traditional three-blade wind turbine design. But there were technical problems, and those projects which usually have higher price per kilowatt to install, according to the report of the National Renewable Energy published in the past year.
The new company, however, enter into a medium-sized turbine area, including FloDesign Wind, OptiWind and BroadStar Wind Systems. The developers have concluded that the machines could be implemented in the existing wind turbines between the larger, in large supermarkets, or for places where lack of land available.
"For the first time we can build a turbine, which can compete on price with large turbines in a small scale - it is like a computer than a computer," said Kowalski.
A distributed model of wind generation solves one of the biggest problems today in the Wind: the presence of lines to bring in the amount of megawatts of electricity to places where it is consumed. T. Boone Pickens, for example, had to postpone the planned wind farms in Texas, because the lack of transfer.
In its second round of funding, FloDesign Wind seeking partnerships to help bring the product to market, "says Kowalski. The Company raised a series round of $ 6 million from Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and hopes to close its second round by the end of this year. She has also received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The company has already received interest, at least one utility to use its turbine, Kowalski said, although he also said that he expects the total utilities will be slower to adopt new technologies of wind.
Massachusetts company wants to raise a series B round of $ 25 million this year to deploy and test the real performance of its 150-kilowatt, "said CEO Stanley Kowalski III at the Cleantech Forum conference on Thursday.
FloDesign Wind in the last year has been allocated from the aerospace engineering companies FloDesign, which supplied the components used in military helicopters and fighter jets. Using its experience in the field of aerodynamics, the company is developing a wind turbine that looks more like a jet engine than a typical three-blade turbine.
His plan is to develop a relatively small turbines and selling them for use by enterprises, communities, or wind farm developers. The company is now testing prototypes, and this process will take at least a year, Kowalski said.
"I think it is exciting that there is an oligopoly (among suppliers of wind turbines)," he said in the course of the Panel on Thursday. "There is resistance to change, and this is how all violated, and we hope that one of the intruders."
Utility scale wind farms usually have a giant wind turbines can turn one or two megawatts of electricity - enough to supply hundreds of houses. Unlike FloDesign wind - along with other contenders wind - develops its turbine for use in the field, not very well suited for large turbines, such as the mountain ridge lines, or for customers who want power on the ground, such as municipalities and businesses, "said Kowalski.
FloDesign Wind expects that it can generate power about 40 percent cheaper than traditional turbines, although the performance depends on the location. Part of the lower-value, in order to extract more useful energy from available wind - the company tested a prototype of a turbine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this year and found that it delivered a three-fold improvement over traditional designs, Kowalski said.
The turbine is built around the fan and shroud that surrounds him. It is designed so that air passes through the fan blades and the edges of the shroud. This creates a combination of two speeds of air in the rear of the device, with the air quickly to walk on the edges of the shroud and slow the air passing through the blades. When two streams of air meet, the cause of the rapid mixing of the air will be pulled through a turbine, Kowalski explained. Electricity produced at the ends of the blades instead of using the gearbox.
The product, which has a 60-tion diameter, is made so that it can be transported on standard bed of the truck, which should make installation easier and cheaper than larger turbines. The Company expects that it will be less dangerous to birds and bats, because it will be easier to see, "said Kowalski. He said that should be quieter than traditional turbines, as well.
Taking on staff
FloDesign Wind is one of the start-up wind company trying to crack the wind market through the introduction of various product designs and are designed for different customers than the big suppliers such as Siemens, Vestas and GE, which are sold on a large scale wind farm developers.
Employees have turbines are more and more for years to get more power from the existing space and reduce the cost of delivered electricity. There have been attempts to make a medium-sized turbines large enough to supply the school or community using the traditional three-blade wind turbine design. But there were technical problems, and those projects which usually have higher price per kilowatt to install, according to the report of the National Renewable Energy published in the past year.
The new company, however, enter into a medium-sized turbine area, including FloDesign Wind, OptiWind and BroadStar Wind Systems. The developers have concluded that the machines could be implemented in the existing wind turbines between the larger, in large supermarkets, or for places where lack of land available.
"For the first time we can build a turbine, which can compete on price with large turbines in a small scale - it is like a computer than a computer," said Kowalski.
A distributed model of wind generation solves one of the biggest problems today in the Wind: the presence of lines to bring in the amount of megawatts of electricity to places where it is consumed. T. Boone Pickens, for example, had to postpone the planned wind farms in Texas, because the lack of transfer.
In its second round of funding, FloDesign Wind seeking partnerships to help bring the product to market, "says Kowalski. The Company raised a series round of $ 6 million from Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and hopes to close its second round by the end of this year. She has also received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The company has already received interest, at least one utility to use its turbine, Kowalski said, although he also said that he expects the total utilities will be slower to adopt new technologies of wind.
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