A student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has his sights set on improving the efficiency of wind turbines. Jie Cheng, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering, has developed a system that ...

It is the year 2035. In a world facing climate catastrophe, the human enterprise is powered by fields of wind farms, with turbine blades made from fast-growing grasses and the roots of a ...

Combining wind turbines with wave, solar and tidal devices on shared platforms reduces construction costs, improves stability ...

A new artificial intelligence system has designed a wind turbine for the first time in history, according to its developer. The British company EvoPhase claims that its AI has thrown all the ...

Industry event channels lessons learned for new approaches to retain investment and supply chain appeal for offshore wind, ...

Giant offshore wind turbine monopiles arriving from Europe last month at the Portsmouth, Va., marine terminal for construction starting next year of Dominion Energy's 2.6-GW project 27 miles off ...

The share of wind power in total electric power generation is expected to increase, and with that comes a requirement for this carbon-free source to be more reliable. The most important component of a ...

In order for wind turbines to function effectively across wide ranges of wind conditions, you’ll need what’s known as blade pitch control. Lucy Pao, the Palmer Endowed Chair Professor in the ...

A preliminary analysis of the Vineyard Wind turbine that failed has found that, although the fundamental design of the machine’s 351-foot blades is sound, a manufacturing flaw caused one of them to ...

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The federal government is exploring the feasibility of manufacturing wind energy infrastructure locally, with the federal ...

In fact, the turbines were able to reach an efficiency of 53%, which is just shy of Betz's Law, a theorem that says no wind turbine would be able to convert more than about 59.3% of wind energy into ...