Windlift

Windlift is an engineering and computer programming company based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Windlift is developing the next generation of Airborne Wind Energy Systems. Airborne wind energy could be the lowest cost electricity of the 21st Century. Requiring far less concrete and steel than traditional wind systems, Windlift's airborne wind energy (AWE) systems use tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that harvest electricity anywhere there is wind, on and offshore. Land AWE systems may be mobile, transported on trailers or anchored in place permanently. Offshore AWE systems are tethered to anchored buoys that are out of sight from land. Military contract awards fund Windlift's R&D and manufacturing. Our military requires electricity for forward operating positions. Windlift's AWE systems are designed to meet the electricity demands of military outposts, and our elevated vehicles provide an ideal platform for high-bandwidth communications and local security. Currently, most electricity for forward outposts is provided by supply lines transporting fuel to the front lines. Supply lines are costly to operate in terms of dollars and lives lost. Supply lines are the most vulnerable part of military operations. Testing, R&D and even building manufacturing facilities can be developed with government funding and military contract awards.