Wind Harvest International

The world needs new technology that will allow more of its clean, renewable wind resources to be profitably utilized.  Developing wind turbines that can last up to 40+ years in rugged conditions is not easy and takes years of field-testing.   In addition, designing turbines that are inexpensive, able to be mass manufactured in existing facilities and easy to transport, install and maintain is even more difficult.  Yet achieving these objectives will result in a dramatic expansion of the amount of wind energy produced around the world in the decades to come.

Wind Harvest International (WHI) has done the work needed to bring a breakthrough wind turbine technology to the commercial wind farm market that meets these objectives.  The original Wind Harvest Company installed and tested its first turbine model in the late 1970s.  Over the next 25 years, Wind Harvest tested ten additional models and gained over 40,000 hours of operating experience in high wind locations.  Now WHI is ready to start the commercialization process for the Windstar Linear Array Vortex Turbine System (LAVTS), the only wind energy technology capable of adding an understory of turbines and doubling the output of wind farms with good near ground-level wind resources.

WHI is confident its technology can help wind farms and utilities in other ways such as:
   *  double the energy output of a wind farm
   *  improve wind farm capacity factors
   *  reduce the need for new land, roads and infrastructure
   *  reduce opposition because of impacts to views
   *  likely not harm birds

This web site is a work in progress.  Please check back in the months to come as the first Windstar 1500 LAVTS gets closer to installation.

Updated May 2008