Parameters in the eye of AWE investors
[See also:
Comparing AWES
]
- Profit
- Liabilities
- Environmental impacts (appearance, birds, noise,
views, shadows, anchoring, service traffic, sky view, air traffic
alternations, ...) Secondary uses of the land, water,
airspace ...
- Partners
- Collaborators
- Maintenance
- Safety-critical issues, margins of safety, fatigue
analysis, fatigue inspection, fatigue response
- Downtime causes
- Damping needs for normal operational
aero-servo-elastic modes
- Reliability
- Lifecycle and cost modeling (development,
manufacturing, deployment, financing, operations, maintenance,
replacement, decommissioning, R&D)
- Revenue
- Simulation tools maturity for the actual chosen
configuration
- Analysis tooling valid for chosen configuration
- Validation of data for input to simulation and
analysis tools
- Public perception
- Repair
- Operation
- Transportation
- Siting issues
(land, land use conflicts, offshore,
energy transportation, weather type,
downwind environment, upwind
environment, anchoring, soil assessment,
multiple uses of site, wind resource,
intermittency, ...)
- Capacity factor
- Control system
- Documentation
- Validation by third party
- Demonstration to third parties
- Wind resource assessment and site proofing (wind
speed probability distribution; turbulence; vertical shear; extreme
winds; extreme coherent gusts; temperatures; probability of
thunderstorms, hail, icing, tornadoes, and hurricanes)
- Pool of skilled technicians
- Insurance: against accidental loss of
system, against public accident liability
- Risks and mitigations, risk management
- Due diligence
- Design environment
- Aero-servo-elastic stability
- Design load cases, logging, monitoring
- Testing documentation
- Launch process
- Recovery process
- Extreme event response
- Conditions awareness, communications, management
response
- Electrical systems fault management
- Control systems fault management
- Configuration change analysis and change management
- Conditions operating envelope
- Time to recover system from impending challenges
- Technology proof
- Standards
- Certifications
- Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations
- Verification standards
- Experience
- Due diligence
- Maturity of technology
- Personnel training
- Pricing of energy
- Scale
- Farm potential, density,
- Airspace permissions
- Longevity
- Overpowering mitigation
- How fast is AWE tech diffusing into the world?
- Labor for system
- Pilotage
- Decommissioning
- Quality of the company's management
- Success pattern of the company
- Price of energy
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