Day |
Time |
Event |
Speaker Name |
Presentation Title |
Organization |
Tues. 9/11 |
8:00 |
Check in and Continental Breakfast |
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Tues. |
9:00 |
Welcoming Remarks |
Bo Walkely |
AWEC 2012 Welcoming Statement from NIA |
National Institute of Aerospace, Interim VP Research and Program Development |
Tues. |
9:10 |
Keynote Speaker 1 |
Dr. Cristina Archer |
AWE: Progress since publication of the Global Assessment of High-Altitude Wind Power in 2009 |
University of Delaware |
Tues. |
9:30 |
Company Presenter 1 |
Wolbert Allaart |
Ampyx Power:Airborne wind energy, from vision to reality |
Ampyx Power, Netherlands |
Tues. |
9:50 |
Company Presenter 2 |
Ben Glass |
Altaeros Energies: From Prototype to Commercialization |
Altaeros Energies, Massachusetts |
Tues. |
10:10 |
Company Presenter 3 |
Daniel Gelbaum |
Sky WindPower: Autonomous Power Producing Flight in Controlled Outdoor Environment |
Sky WindPower, California |
Tues. |
10:30 |
Tea & Coffee |
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Sponsored by: AWEC |
Tues. |
10:40 |
Company Presenter 4 |
Andy Stough |
Practical Application of Ground Gen Systems: Challenges and Opportunities |
Windlift, North Carolina |
Tues. |
11:00 |
High Altitude Wind: |
Dr. Ken Caldeira |
Geophysical Limits to Global Wind Power |
Carnegie Institute of Science, CA |
Tues. |
11:20 |
Wind Resource |
Dr. Cristina Archer |
Global distributions and temporal variations of low-level winds for Airborne Wind Energy applications |
University of Delaware |
Tues. |
11:40 |
AWEC 2012 |
Award Presentation |
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The Airborne Wind Energy Consortium |
Tues. |
12:00 |
Lunch |
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Tues. |
1:00 |
Keynote Speaker 2 |
Dr. Chris Purvis |
AWE Power Plant Project Development Considerations |
Wind & Solar Power Project Developer, CA |
Tues. |
1:30 |
AWES Research 1 |
Patrick McGarey |
High Altitude Turbine Survey: Students Measure Airfoil Performance on a High Altitude Balloon |
Arizona State University |
Tues. |
1:50 |
AWES Research 2 |
Dr. Andrew Wagner |
First Experimental Results on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for a Kite Launching Carousel |
KU Leuven, Belgium |
Tues. |
2:10 |
AWES Research 3 |
Dr. Lorenzo Fagiano |
A small-scale research prototype for the control of airborne wind energy generators with flexible wings: design and experimental results |
Politecnico di Torino, Italy and University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
Tues. |
2:30 |
Tea, Coffee, Snacks |
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Sponsored by: AWEC |
Tues. |
2:50 |
Thank You Sponsors! |
Michael Wagner |
Recognition of Sponsors |
NIA & Sponosrs |
Tues. |
3:00 |
AWEC 2013 |
Guido Luetsch |
Announcement of AWEC 2013 venue and dates |
Germany |
Tues. |
3:10 |
Company Presenter 5 |
Guido Luetsch |
NTS - Airborne Wind Energy on track(s) |
NTS Energie-und Transportsysteme, Germany |
Tues. |
3:30 |
Company Presenter 6 |
Dr. Alexander Bormann |
The EnerKite 30 kW mobile AWEC - from demonstration to utilization. |
Enerkite, Germany |
Tues. |
3:50 |
Company Presenter 7 |
Dr. Corwin Hardam |
Innovations in Onboard Generation |
Makani Power, California |
Tues. |
4:10 |
Day 1 Wrap up |
AWEC Director TBD |
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Tues. |
4:20 |
Walk to & Tour VASC |
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Virginia Air and Space Center |
Sponsored by: VASC |
Tues. |
5:00 |
Free time |
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Tues. |
6:30 |
Networking Reception to 7:15 |
Latitude 37 lounge Crowne Plaza Hotel |
Complimentary Beverage Courtesy of NIA |
Sponsored by: The National Institute of Aersospace |
Tues. |
7:30 |
Sigma Series Lecture at VASC |
Dr. Steven M. Sliwa |
Aeronautical Entrepreneuring with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles |
Sponsored by: Virginia Air & Space Center and NASA Langley Research Center |
Tues. |
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Consider IMAX movie |
VASC |
on your own |
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Day |
Time |
Event |
Speaker Name |
Presentation Title |
Organization |
Weds 9/12 |
7:30 |
Continental Breakfast & Late Checkin |
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Weds. |
8:30 |
Keynote Speaker 3 |
Dr. Qamar Shams |
Instrumentation Systems for Safe Operation of Airborne Wind Energy Systems |
NASA, Langley Research Center |
Weds. |
9:00 |
Company Presenter 8 |
Rob Creighton |
Economics of Mobile AWE for Distributed Power Generation |
Windlift, North Carolina |
Weds. |
9:20 |
Company Presenter 9 |
Alden Woodrow |
Developing utility scale wind power projects: economic realities |
Makani Power, California |
Weds. |
9:40 |
Modeling |
Dr. Cristina Archer |
Geographical and seasonal variability of the global “practical” wind power potential |
University of Delaware |
Weds. |
10:00 |
Tea & Coffee |
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Sponsored by: AWEC |
Weds. |
10:20 |
Keynote Speaker 4 |
Randall Strom |
Tethered High Altitude Wind Turbine and Range Safety at Wallops Flight Facility |
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility |
Weds. |
10:40 |
AWES Research 4 |
Dr. Jamey Jacob, PE |
Design and Testing of Inflatable Structures for AWE |
Oklahoma State University |
Weds. |
11:00 |
AWES Research 5 |
David Janke |
EnerKite Network - Interdisciplinary technology in research & development |
Beuth Hochschule für Technik, Berlin, Germany collaborating with Enerkite |
Weds. |
11:20 |
AWES Research 6 |
Christine Lewis with PJ Shepard |
Where might AWES fly over Minnesota and Nevada? GIS-based Suitability Analysis |
California State University, Chico collaborating with Sky WindPower |
Weds. |
11:40 |
Offshore weather |
Bryan Fabbri |
Chesapeake Light Tower Meteorological Research |
Science Systems and Applications, Inc., VA |
Weds. |
12:00 |
Lunch |
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Weds. |
1:00 |
Keynote Speaker 5 |
Mason Inman |
Energy High in the Sky: Expert Perspectives on Barriers to Airborne Wind Energy Systems |
Near Zero |
Weds. |
1:30 |
Wind Resource |
Dr. Mark Jacobson |
Saturation Wind Power Potential and its Implications for Wind Energy |
Stanford University, California |
Weds. |
1:50 |
Company Presenter 10 |
Dr. Richard Ruiterkamp |
Certification of PowerPlane systems |
Ampyx Power, Netherlands |
Weds. |
2:10 |
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FAA |
FAA AWES Rule Update & NextGen Airspace |
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Weds. |
2:30 |
Tea, Coffee, Snacks |
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Sponsored by: AWEC |
Weds. |
2:50 |
Workshop |
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AWES Airspace Strategy - sharing across continents |
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Weds. |
3:30 |
Workshop |
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Government Advocacy |
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Weds. |
4:00 |
Closing Remarks |
AWEC Chairman |
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Weds. |
5:00 |
END of networking |
time in hotel ballrooom |
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