Energy-generating wind turbines have come a long way since the first-known example was built in the late 1880s. What started as a 10-meter-tall (33 feet) construction in a back garden in Scotland ...

Siemens Gamesa has completed work on what to date is the world’s most powerful installed wind turbine. The final blades for the 21.5-MW prototype offshore turbine were installed April 2 at the ...

Divya Tyagi, a Penn State engineering student, has cracked a 100-year-old wind energy equation, refining Glauert’s classical model and significantly improving wind turbine efficiency.

A Vestas wind turbine has suffered damage to two blades at a wind farm in Norway, the second such incident in a matter of months, forcing the site offline. Two blades on a Vestas V117-4.2MW machine ...

Vestas said the company has secured a firm order for 68 of its model V236-15.0 MW wind turbines for Vattenfall's Nordlicht 1 ...

He signed an executive order that stopped all new approvals, and renewals, of wind energy projects on federal lands and waters, citing “consequences of which may lead to grave harm — including ...

Global wind turbine installations set a record for the second year in 2024, with China leading, according to a report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). BNEF has confirmed that a total of 121.6 gigawatts (GW) ...

The wind energy industry continues to suffer a plague of embarrassing headlines after two more turbines were damaged in recent days, with the hub and blades falling off a turbine in Canada and a ...

GE Vernova is going to supply more than 100 US-made wind turbines to renewables developer RWE for 308 megawatts (MW) of wind projects in west Texas. RWE is repowering its 127 MW Forest Creek ...

Global evidence is clear: Adding more solar and wind to the energy supply pushes up the price of electricity. Ontario families and businesses already know this — from bitter experience. Beginning in ...

Proposals to partially demolish a Birmingham shopping centre to make ... retailer chain is seeking permission to bulldoze part of Northfield Shopping Centre, with the specific application site ...