Wind turbines keep getting bigger: Each blade can be longer than a football field, and one offshore turbine recently installed in China is as tall as a 50-story building. Making the base to hold ...

The alert came into the Vineyard Wind office on Saturday July 13: Something was wrong with a turbine in the project. The company soon learned that “one of the blades was broken and folded over ...

The massive offshore wind turbine blade that broke near Nantucket was one of several recent failures of blades made by GE Vernova – a top US wind turbine manufacturer. CNN values your feedback 1.

Canadian company Aurea has developed a portable wind turbine that fits in your backpack. Called Shine, it weighs just three pounds, it’s about the size of a water bottle, and it can charge any ...

History of Wind Turbines . The first wind turbine used to generate electricity dates from 1887—merely five years after Thomas Edison developed the first electric power station running on coal.

The V236-15.0 MW offshore wind turbine’s blades will be serially produced in Nakskov from the second half of 2023, as well as at the company’s blade factory in Taranto, Italy, from the third ...

Siemens Gamesa’s first recyclable blades are spinning on a wind turbine at the Kaskasi offshore wind farm in Germany. It’s the first commercial installation of recyclable wind turbine technology.

The $571 Shine 2.0 wind turbine can generate power day and night as long as wind speeds are over 8mph, and it folds up into a portable package that looks like an elongated football.

A team of researchers at Queen's University Belfast stress-test a bridge made from wind turbine blades on May 24, 2023, in in a quarry in Draperstown, Northern Ireland, U.K.

Floating turbines are the only way some countries and U.S. states can capture offshore wind energy on a large scale. In the U.S. alone, 2.8 terawatts of wind energy potential blows over ocean ...