Clever aerodynamic use of slow and steady air currents could set a new milestone for large-scale clean wind-generated electricity. At least, that is the claim of one rooftop renewable energy company, ...

Who would have thought that the sleek Atlas Vertical Wind Turbine Generator with its vertical build and a powerful 10 KW output can looks more like a sculpture from the future than a piece of ...

Critiques of wind power often centre around the wind turbines themselves. Conventional wind turbines are comprised of long blades that spin around an axis at great speed, and at great heights. Most ...

LONDON - Time To ACT plc (AQSE: TTA), an engineering group specializing in energy transition technology, announced today that its subsidiary, GreenSpur, has developed a preliminary design for a 15MW ...

Power Electronics Technology has presented articles on the use of ocean currents to generate electricity (September 2010) as well as articles in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011 that described use of ...

SHANGHAI, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai Electric Wind Power Group Co., Ltd.'s (Shanghai Electric) first EW8.X-230 wind turbine generator rolled off the production line at the Putian ...

Vortex Bladeless uses a radically new approach to capturing wind energy. The device captures the energy of vorticity, an aerodynamic effect that has plagued structural engineers and architects for ...

Most of the world's greatest wind power resources are offshore – often a long way offshore, where the water's so deep that it's impractical to build typical fan-on-a-stick wind turbines with bases ...

Each turbine in a wind farm is equipped with a step-up transformer, which boosts (steps up) turbine generator output voltage from a few hundred volts to the collector system’s medium voltage ...

From all outward appearances, wind turbines are sleek and elegant works of engineering. But inside, they're hell on gears and bearings. In most turbines, the rotors turn a mechanical transmission that ...

When most of today’s wind projects were developed, first costs were the focus; operations and maintenance (O&M) costs were largely unknown. Now, with hundreds of turbine models in operation—sometimes ...