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Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-695-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-695-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
Research article
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14 Apr 2025
Research article |  | 14 Apr 2025

System design and scaling trends in airborne wind energy demonstrated for a ground-generation concept

Rishikesh Joshi, Dominic von Terzi, and Roland Schmehl

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This paper presents a methodology for assessing the system design and scaling trends in airborne wind energy (AWE). A multi-disciplinary design, analysis, and optimisation (MDAO) framework was developed, integrating power, energy production, and cost models for the fixed-wing ground-generation (GG) AWE concept. Using the levelized cost of electricity (LCoE) as the design objective, we found that the optimal size of systems lies between the rated power of 100 and 1000 kW.
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