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A University of Edinburgh student startup
Myriad Wind Energy Systems is a student start-up founded by three renewable energy researchers, Adam Harris (UoE), Peter Taylor (Strathclyde) and Paul Pirrie (Strathclyde). The Company is designing the next generation of high-performance wind turbines.
Myriad’s multi-rotor wind turbine (MRWT) is an array of many smaller rotors on a single support structure rather than one large rotor like conventional wind turbines. This modular design has several advantages compared to existing, conventional wind turbines including:
•Reduced capital cost and operations and maintenance costs;
•Increased energy capture potential;
•Higher wind turbine control; and
•Use of recyclable materials (such as thermoplastics) to support a circular economy.
The Company is currently using pre-Seed funding to optimise its initial concept and design.
