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 20-40 years in the tough conditions of high wind locations is not easy. In addition to being durable, making them inexpensive, able to be fabricated in existing facilities and easy to 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 that meets these objectives to the commercial wind farm market.  The original Wind Harvest Company installed and tested its first turbine model in the late 1970s. Over the next 25 year, it 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 1500 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 believes that its technology and patents will provide the breakthroughs needed to economically build turbines offshore, float turbines on barges that also produce wave energy, install large turbines on the tops of building and more.

This web site tells the story of Wind Harvest and where it is going. The web site is a work in progress so check back to see what additional information is added in the months to come as the first Windstar 1500 LAVTS gets closer to installation and validation. 

(Updated February 2008)