Wind power is becoming an increasingly trusted source of power across the globe. 5 of the most mind-blowing advancements in ...

To spark creativity, Manawatū-based companies Precycle NZ and Central Environmental will host a 24-hour hackathon in February ...

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The first wind turbine tower manufactured using a spiral welding technique is now in commercial operation. Proponents of the new approach say it could revolutionize onshore wind deployment by offering ...

In past projects, Professor Lucy Pao and her research group have focused on designing the best control systems for wind turbines — systems aimed at maximizing power production or reducing structural ...

Japanese officials announced the start of commercial operation of a 16.8-MW floating offshore wind farm, a first for that ...

Drag-based wind energy design. Aiming to translate its expertise in manufacturing monocoque, ribbed components with thermoplastic microspheres, Xenecore is working to develop a fan-shaped, drag-based ...

In a wind farm, individual turbines will sap some of the energy available to neighboring turbines, because of wake effects. Accurate wake modeling is important both for designing the layout of ...

The "Windcatcher" design concept, a wall of small wind turbines floating in the sea, from Norwegian company Wind Catching Systems (WCS), has officially received approval from a leading global ...

Swedish multinational power company Vattenfall announced today that it has successfully conducted large-scale seabed surveys with uncrewed robotic boats at several of its offshore wind farms in ...

As the world innovates to become more sustainable and electrified, the demand for renewable energy generation grows. Wind energy has become key in increasing the renewable energy generation mix of ...

When multi-gigawatt offshore wind projects are more than halfway built, a sudden stop order becomes an engineering problem before it becomes anything else. Ships go off hire, crews of specialization ...