Research Progress and Prospect of Tethered Floating Wind Energy Generation Technology

Abstract

Wind energy is one of the most important ways for clean energy,and has pollution-free,renewable and collection-available characteristics,which is developed rapidly in recent years.Compared with the traditional lowaltitude wind power generation,the tethered floating wind power generation has the advantages of high capacity coefficient and low power generation cost,and owns greater development value and potential,which has achieved a certain achievement carried by a number of countries.The research on the present tethered floating wind power generation technology is reported in this paper,which contains a conclusion of four kinds of tethered floating wind power generation technologies.The operating conception and feature of each technique type are analyzed.The critical points including design and manufacture of light and high strength tether,advanced envelope composite material,stable and intelligent control,aircraft overall design of efficient wind power generation and convenient deployment are summarized,which provide a foundation for future development and further research on this direction.

Keywords

• high-altitude wind power
• wind energy generation
• high-altitude wind energy generation system
• teth-ered floating mode
• aircraft design