WinDesign, the international contest for new wind turbine design

• Italian energy giant, Enel, has launched WinDesign, an international contest aimed at designing innovative wind turbines that are increasingly integrated with the surrounding environment and designed to minimize the impact on the landscape.

The contest is aimed at architectural firms, engineering companies, companies, start-ups, universities and students from all over the world, with the aim of collecting new ideas and solutions that integrate functionality, design, innovation and sustainability into wind turbines. This represents a global challenge to give a new look to sustainable energy, with solutions that combine technological advancement and design.

WinDesign will stimulate the best creatives and engineers to conceive, design and implement new solutions developed according to criteria of reduced environmental and landscape impact, technical-functional suitability, flexibility of use as well as economic and financial sustainability, in full respect of local communities and in compliance with current regulations.

The contest has officially opened: its first phase requires drawings and projects to be filed by midnight on June 16^th. Projects that will be admitted to the next phase will receive a prize of 5,000 euros.

The second and final phase will start on July 1^st and admitted candidates will have until midnight on September 29^th to submit a detailed project and a technical-economic report on the feasibility of the proposed solutions. The top three will receive a prize of 250,000, 150,000 and 50,000 euros respectively. In addition, three non-cumulative special awards of 15,000 euros each will be awarded for the categories (i) Design, (ii) Technical-Economic Feasibility as well as (iii) Innovation and Sustainability.

The WinDesign contest is hosted on www.openinnovability.enel.com, the crowdsourcing platform developed by Enel specifically for the search for innovative solutions using the brightest ideas and technologies in circulation, whether they come from startups, companies, academia or investors.

Author: Bryan Groenendaal