Testing Our 10kW Mobile Wind Turbine
Video and write-up about a recent test session of the Uprise Energy Mobile Power Station
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Uprise Earns A Slot In Startupbootcamp Energy Australia 2018 Cohort
This is the story of how Uprise Energy was selected to participate in the Startupbootcamp Energy Australia accelerator program and our experience to date.
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The Mobile Power Station That’s Changing The Energy Game
EnergyAustralia talks to Jonathan Knight, co-founder and CEO of Uprise Energy. Knight shares details about his company’s wind-powered electricity generator and explains how it will be a game-changer for power at the grid’s edge and particularly in humanitarian contexts.
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Design Methodology and Technical Attributes of the Uprise Energy 50 kW Portable Power Center
A study of constraints in the wind industry was conducted to guide the development process of the Uprise machine. The list is long, but here are the ones that effect energy capture.
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Area Under the Curve - The Importance of Capturing Gust Energy
The area under the wind curve is critical to understanding the importance of wind machines and their ability to capture a reasonable percent of that energy.
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Project Summary: Methods to Improve Wind Gust Energy Capture
The energy of a wind gust is typically 8 times that of the steady wind flow. A modern wind turbine has constraints preventing it from capturing the increased energy in a wind gust. A modern wind turbine, on average, captures 25% of the available kinetic energy from wind flow.
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Methods To Improve Wind Turbine Performance
Renewable energy is imperative. While no renewable source is the answer for all of our energy needs, wind energy has its attributes. Unlike the sun, wind is everywhere all the time. Wind power has become reasonably cost effective compared to other renewable forms. However, wind is not as cost ef
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AWEA WindPower Conference & Exhibition 2018
Uprise Energy was pleased to attend the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) 2018 in Chicago, IL. This is our recap of the largest wind energy conference in the country.
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Distributed Wind Energy Is On The Rise
Distributed wind turbine installations in the United States nearly doubled in 2017 from the year prior.
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Wind Power vs Diesel Power vs Solar Power (Comparison)
When reviewing electrical power options for remote (often times off-grid) regions, there are three primary options one would likely consider: Solar Power, a Diesel Powered Generator or a Wind Turbine. Comparing these three is interesting, but not always equivalent.
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Need For A Portable Wind Turbine
Electrical energy provides great benefits to those who are connected to a grid. For the billions who are not connected to a grid, the solution is local or portable power generators. Virtually millions of small communities, remote and isolated, need small or medium generators. Fuel powered generators
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Why The Uprise Energy Portable Wind Turbine Is Needed
here are many niches that could be served with an off-grid, portable, renewable power generator. This discussion will focus on those that do not have reliable power as a result of not being served by an electrical grid.
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How Uprise Improves the Performance of Our Portable Wind Turbine
One of the ways Uprise Energy maximizes the performance of our portable wind turbine is by utilizing proprietary electronics to manage rotor RPM so that it follows changes in wind speed, maintaining an optimized tip-speed-ratio. This allows the machine to benefit from the exponential energy in wind
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Benefits of Hybrid Energy Solution: Wind + Solar + Storage
The following narrative demonstrates the benefits of a hybrid energy system where the principal components, solar panels and wind turbines, work in conjunction with an energy storage and power grid system.
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Cofounder / CEO Jonathan Knight Radio Interview
Our Cofounder and CEO, Jonathan Knight, was on the Beyond Zero Emissions radio show in Melbourne, Australia talking about Uprise Energy and the Mobile Power Station. Here is an in-studio video of the interview that covered a lot of ground and is a great way to learn more about the company background
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