About Accio Energy
A wind technology that requires no moving parts, will easily scale from small communities up to the largest offshore wind farm, and will offer all of these benefits at utility competitive costs. Accio Energy's Aerovoltaic wind energy systems: A new direction in wind energy.
For over 700 years, people have captured the energy of wind in only one way: by going around in circles. So, popular opinion has concluded that there are no new wind technology options. Yet, frustration with legacy wind technology is high including maintenance concerns, siting concerns, the high cost of all but the largest turbines, wildlife endangerment, energy loss through remote grid transmission, and inherent manufacturing inefficiencies. The market opportunity for a truly new improved technology is huge. Accio Energy created Aerovoltaic wind technology to provide a better distributed wind energy solution.
Aerovoltaic technology is an approach to wind energy that does not rely on electromagnetic effects to produce electricity from the wind's kinetic energy, just as photovoltaic cells exploit photoelectric effects rather than electromagnetic principles. Aerovoltaic technology harvests energy by using the wind to move electrically charged particles against a voltage gradient. The electricity generated is fed directly to the grid or stored locally to provide energy on demand.
Our work is supported with funding from the US National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Michigan Public Service Commission.
