EKZ and Climate Foundation support Vertical Sky®

To finance this research and testing project, we have spent the past few months looking for partners who are interested in a future-oriented solution for generating electricity from wind power, and we are very pleased that two well-known bodies in Switzerland are contributing to the development.

On the one hand, the EKZ is supporting the project with a substantial contribution. We are very pleased about this and see it as a sign that our efforts to promote decentralized electricity production from renewable energies are being heard and supported on a larger scale, and we have also received a pledge of support from the Swiss Climate Foundation: It has positively assessed our application for funding for the project "Creation of a new type of vertical axis wind turbine as a research facility": Our demonstrator project Vertical Sky® will be considered for a considerable amount of funding.

Background
The plant uses the latest technologies. The innovative production of electricity from wind energy can thus be experienced in real operation by potential customers, the media, politicians and, of course, interested members of the public. An important success factor. Until now, wind projects have often failed due to reservations and a lack of public acceptance. A perfect opportunity to show the world that our Vertical Sky® turbines are quiet, rotate slowly, are much better integrated into the landscape and pose no danger to birds and bats.
 

This research turbine represents the future commercial turbine A40, which has a rotor diameter of forty meters and a total height of 133 meters. Several of these turbines will be delivered to a global industrial group as early as 2026, which will use them to produce large quantities of electricity on site for its own consumption.