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Listed parameters come from the concerns expressed from members of the AWE community:
Parameters in the eye of AWE investors                  [See also: Comparing AWES ]
  • Profit
  • Liabilities
  • Environmental impacts (appearance, birds, noise, views, shadows, anchoring, service traffic, sky view, air traffic alternations, ...)    Secondary uses of the land, water, airspace ...
  • Partners
  • Collaborators
  • Maintenance
  • Safety-critical issues, margins of safety, fatigue analysis, fatigue inspection, fatigue response
  • Downtime causes
  • Damping needs for normal operational aero-servo-elastic modes
  • Reliability
  • Lifecycle and cost modeling (development, manufacturing, deployment, financing, operations, maintenance, replacement, decommissioning, R&D)
  • Revenue
  • Simulation tools maturity for the actual chosen configuration
  • Analysis tooling valid for chosen configuration
  • Validation of data for input to simulation and analysis tools
  • Public perception
  • Repair
  • Operation
  • Transportation
  • Siting issues
          
    (land, land use conflicts, offshore, energy transportation, weather type,
            downwind environment, upwind environment, anchoring, soil assessment,
            multiple uses of site, wind resource, intermittency,  ...)
  • Capacity factor
  • Control system
  • Documentation
  • Validation by third party
  • Demonstration to third parties
  • Wind resource assessment and site proofing (wind speed probability distribution; turbulence; vertical shear; extreme winds; extreme coherent gusts; temperatures; probability of thunderstorms, hail, icing, tornadoes, and hurricanes)
  • Pool of skilled technicians
  • Insurance:   against accidental loss of system, against public accident liability
  • Risks and mitigations, risk management
  • Due diligence
  • Design environment
  • Aero-servo-elastic stability
  • Design load cases, logging, monitoring
  • Testing documentation
  • Launch process
  • Recovery process
  • Extreme event response
  • Conditions awareness, communications, management response
  • Electrical systems fault management
  • Control systems fault management
  • Configuration change analysis and change management
  • Conditions operating envelope
  • Time to recover system from impending challenges
  • Technology proof
  • Standards
  • Certifications
  • Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations
  • Verification standards
  • Experience
  • Due diligence
  • Maturity of technology
  • Personnel training
  • Pricing of energy
  • Scale
  • Farm potential, density,
  • Airspace permissions
  • Longevity
  • Overpowering mitigation
  • How fast is AWE tech diffusing into the world?
  • Labor for system
  • Pilotage
  • Decommissioning
  • Quality of the company's management
  • Success pattern of the company
  • Price of energy
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