# 2025 Recap: Projects, Patents, and Progress | Wind Harvest

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- Published at: 2026-01-02 18:15:59 UTC
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## Author
Kevin Wolf

## Subject
Wind Harvest

## Content
As 2025 comes to a close and the next year begins, Wind Harvest is deeply grateful for its investors. Their support has funded a breakthrough technology that can significantly expand the supply of renewable energy.The first industrial-scale vertical-axis wind turbine that completes all nine Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) steps has a large upside potential.Highlights of 2025 include: Crowdfunding momentum and a larger investor community — The StartEngine campaign launched in September. By October, the offering raised $500,000. Now more than $800,000 has been invested. Long-lead manufacturing locked in — The additional funding completed the payment for two sets of driveshafts and bearing housings from Tech-Max Machine (Illinois). We expect their delivery, fully ready for installation in late spring 2026. Field validation infrastructure expanded — Ordered and paid for four sets of wind sensors and meteorological masts for multiple installations — because wind-speed data is essential for project financing. One is going up at the Leatherback Brewery in St. Croix where a 2 to 8 turbine Wind Harvester© project is advancing. Two of the met masts are going up nearby at the Port Hamilton Refining and Transportation facility. The fourth met mast and set of anemometers is ready for installation at a casino on tribal land in the mid-West. We can’t officially announce the location until all the documents are signed, but we can tell you that the site meets international certification requirements for wind turbines. A project there would save the cost of installing two Wind Harvester 4.0s at the UL test facility in Texas and then removing them after certification is complete. Now we plan to sell them upon installation, with the potential to save more than $500,000. The “casino” project would also buy our Model 3.1 prototype with which the Wind Harvester completed TRL 7 - a full scale prototype in industry (very gusty and turbulent) conditions. That turbine would move from the UL facility directly to the casino site. Once there, it will produce electricity. The three turbines would also be an excellent tourist attraction and educational asset for the tribe. Selling the 3.1 prototype could return much of the money Wind Harvest invested in it from capital raised in the first crowdfunding offering. Projects advanced, especially in St. Croix — We completed Phase I of the wildlife field observations needed to help secure permits for our proposed flagship USVI project on the “Coke Dock Peninsula”. After our company leadership trip there, we determined that the project should advance as a solar/wind project with the mounds of debris removed, dredge piles flattened and toxic sites avoided. Here is a graphic of what we now expect that project to look like with 120 (6 MWs) Wind Harvesters and 6-7 MWs of solar panels between the turbine rows. We expect to soon sign a project development LOI with the Port Hamilton Refining and Transportation company who wants to be the purchaser of the electricity. IP milestones that strengthen licensing and royalty opportunities — In 2025 we expanded our patent portfolio with the top three patents granted bringing our total for 2024-25 to 8 granted. The fourth patent is pending and was applied for in June of 2025. Final notification on its status expected by spring. VAWT with Blade having Variable Thickness Collapsible Rotor Assembly of a VAWT Method for Installing a Rotor Assembly Reinforced Blade for a VAWT More visibility and investor education — The Forbes Wind Harvest article discussed the “industrial cleantech hardware” story- why certification and project pipeline development are the value inflection points, and how Wind Harvest has pursued an “asset light” approach with only ~$17M invested to date. The big picture: 2025 was about converting momentum into projects, patents, and people that should advance our product’s bankable readiness and sales.Looking ahead: What 2025 set up for 2026Because of what was done this year - financing progress, long-lead components, met-mast deployments, project development, and IP - our 2026 focus is straightforward: finish raising the capital we need, execute installations, complete third-party certification steps, and convert the most advanced pipeline opportunities into signed agreements and financed projects. (As we’ve noted, we expect positive news, but won’t share details publicly until documents are fully negotiated and signed.)Because of investors like you, it’s possible to bring a new class of wind technology to market and pursue meaningful impact at a global scale.With appreciation,Kevin WolfCEO & Co-Founder, Wind Harvest International