It’s only fitting that the company generating electricity by loop-de-looping a ground-tethered winged drone is from North Carolina. After all, North Carolina is the birthplace of human flight.
In 2023, wind energy accounted for roughly 7.8% of all electricity created around the world. There are a few countries that have really topped the list of wind-energy generation: Fifty-eight percent of Denmark’s total electricity generation was wind. Uruguay saw 43%. Ireland 35%.
Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) is the primary metric for comparing the cost of generating electricity through different methods; coal, wind, solar, nuclear, hydrogen, etc.
While the LCoE has been dropping over time for wind energy – mostly due to efficiency, construction costs, building materials and larger generators – it’s still relatively expensive. Lazard’s 2023 LCoE report showed that unsubsidized onshore wind costs between US$24 and $75 per MWh while offshore…
