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Optimal blade pitch control for enhanced vertical-axis wind turbine performance

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First start-up originating from the lab: Windworks

About Windworks | Innovators in Wind Energy Solutions

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📰 Our optimal blade pitch control work in the press 📺

Original press releases

A breath of fresh air for vertical wind turbines

Machine learning enables viability of vertical-axis wind turbines

Radio and television interviews

Eoliennes, intelligences artificielles et histoire culinaire

Un changement d'axe pour les éoliennes

Other national and international mentions

Un vent nouveau pour les éoliennes à axe vertical grâce à des scientifiques de l'EPFL

EPFL: Des scientifiques améliorent des éoliennes à axe vertical

Blade tweak boosts vertical-axis wind turbine efficiency by 200% - Interesting Engineering

Machine learning enhances vertical-axis wind turbine performance

Can machine learning commercialise vertical-axis wind turbines?

Sebastian’s Bridge project

SNSF Data Portal


Vertical-axis wind turbines offer benefits that make them candidates to diversify our wind power production technology. These turbines can operate in a broad range of wind conditions and emit little noise during operation, making them ideal for urban applications. The structural soundness of vertical-axis wind turbines has also attracted industrial attention for off-shore floating applications. However,the aerodynamic complexity of vertical-axis wind turbines has hampered their industrial deployment.

Horizontal-axis wind turbine

Horizontal-axis wind turbine

Vertical-axis wind turbine

Vertical-axis wind turbine