OPTEC's Principal Investigator Moritz Diehl was awarded an ERC
Starting Grant for his project HIGHWIND - Simulation, Optimization and
Control of High-Altitude Wind Power Generators. The European Research
Council (ERC) selects individual scientists with high risk, high gain
projects, in a highly selective procedure, and awards more than 1 MEuro
to each selected project. The ERC
funding is
synergetic with OPTEC's
kite power project and will strongly reinforce its
activities in the coming 5 years. (fact:
October 2010)