Pim Breukelman van Ampyx Power vertelt over de ontwikkeling van de PowerPlane, een nieuwe windenergie technologie die de opwekking van duurzame energie vele malen goedkoper kan maken. De energie opgewekt door de PowerPlane kan al concurreren met alternatieve opwekmethoden op basis van fossiele brandstoffen op de eerste commerciële schaal.

1. Ampyx Power: Wind energy less expensive than fossil power
MVO Koplopersbijeenkomst 25 maart 2014

2. The PowerPlane technology
Why are electricity costs so low? 600m
300m
0m
• Operating 5.5m wingspan prototype – design work on-going for 12m/250kW and 30m/2,5MW
• Several demonstration farms under development
• After scale-up to 30m wingspan systems will have significantly lower Levelised Cost of Energy (LCoE)
than coal-fired power, even when deployed offshore
• PowerPlane systems use significantly less material
than conventional wind turbines
• PowerPlanes operate on higher altitudes than
conventional wind turbines, where wind is stronger
and more constant
• Development costs of PowerPlanes are much lower
than conventional wind turbines as core innovation
is in system control software, not system hardware
• When deployed offshore, PowerPlanes are based
on floating platforms instead of huge foundations,
resulting in much lower construction, installation
and maintenance costs
Status

3. EQUITY
(as of 2010)
Complemented
with grants,
subsidies and
soft loans
Financing
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Angels
Rabo
fondsen
Crowdfunding
+ informals
round
Growth
capital round
Cash
positive
Exit
anticipated
Crowdfunding:
• Via online platform: Oneplanetcrowd
• Started as "PR-activity” and “grew out of hand”
• Attracted many large informal investors (300k -> 2,3M)
Structure
• Loan, converted to certificate (share, no vote)
• Crowdfunding after Rabo funds (name, due dilligence done)
Positive
• Round much larger than expected
• Added value of investors (business development, tax/legal advice)
Negative
• Administrative burden, especially around conversion
• Extremely hard to get valuation done (Big-4), less convincing than
“real” market transaction
Crowdfunding take-aways

4. Video