I don’t think AWES have all the advantages, I will be much more shaded in my opinion.
About cost first, for small wind turbine, AWES is more costly than a traditionnal wind turbine.
About maintenance : there is a low probability that an immature technology has a lower maintenance cost than a well known and mature technology. not counting the fact that AWES has more moving parts than traditionnal Wind turbine.
Portability : agree with you, we are much more portable, that is a key difference
In my opinions you forget the main feature of AWES : land use. In most case AWES can’t be deploy because of land use.For the market you described for example: rural homes and small business. Just put a tree somewhere in the equation and your customer is gone.
Full automation is probably a key feature for large power production but only if you have a place to deploy your device. If you don’t, even with a fully automated devices, you will go nowhere.
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