- How would one go about comparing one AWES with another AWES?
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Testing sites
- Contests (rules, measuring, third-party neutrality, ...), fly-offs,
competitions,
- Analysis
- Historical records
- What parameters will be measured?
- Validating the values of parameters
- Third-party analysis
- Manufacturer's analysis
- Accountant's perspective
- Legal perspective
- Engineering perspective
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Collecting potential parameters that may concern various AWES analysts
[ ] Yet: mine the white papers for the
parameters that have been chosen by investigators.
- ROI
Return on
Investment
- EROI
Energy returned on energy invested
- LCOP, LEC
Cost of electricity by source
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power-to-capital-cost
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Parametric optimisation of kite structures
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Mass per delivered-to-grid energy
- Investment expenditures in the year
- Operations and maintenance expenditures in the
year
- Fuel expenditures in the year
- Electricity generation in the year
- Discount rate
- Life of the system
- Carbon footprint for the entire life of an
AWES
- Carbon dioxide savings per year for the
installation
- Cost of electricity
- Power per kg
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Capacity factor
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Nameplate capacity
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Parameters in the eye of AWE investors
- Site costs
- Wind resource for the particular site
- Intermittency of resource for the site of the
AWES installation
Intermittent
power source
- Environmental impacts on flora, fauna, land,
noise, vision, climate, weather, downwind processes,
- Time between failures
- Elapsed time for installing AWES at site
- Coefficient of performance
- Efficiency
- Drag
- Lift
- Groundgen or flygen or hybridgen?
- Tether parameters
- Site: onshore, offshore, mixed shore,
free-flight with base or not
- Ground-crew requirements
- Autonomy
- autonomous survivability
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