But some social media users are claiming that wind turbine generators – the part that produces electricity when the turbine blades are spinning – must be replaced much more frequently.

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 debris had fallen from a damaged turbine blade at the nearby Vineyard Wind project. The part, made and installed by GE Vernova, had broken three days earlier, and no one really knew why.

The first, full-sized floating offshore wind turbine in the United States will tower 850 feet above the waves in the Gulf of Maine – roughly as tall as New York City’s famed 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Wind turbine technicians, also known as wind techs, are the professionals in charge of inspecting and maintaining wind turbines. That means that most of their days are spent way up high in a ...

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We also chatted with wind expert and general wind turbine critic Paul Gipe for an overview of what not to pick when getting a home wind turbine. One thing to note is that you’ll need quite a bit ...

The massive offshore wind turbine blade that broke and spread fiberglass and foam debris across Nantucket beaches this week was one of several recent failures of blades made by GE Vernova – a ...

All three blades for the prototype of the Vestas V236-15.0 MW offshore wind turbine have arrived at their final destination, and they’ll now be installed and spinning soon. The 379-foot (115.5 ...

While wind turbine towers and motors are made from metal and can be recycled once decommissioned, the blades are non-recyclable, meaning that unless they are put to good use, tens of thousands of ...