A concept rendering of offshore vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). What makes renewable energy so exciting is the immense economic potential of groundbreaking technology advancements. A recent ...

When you consider today’s industrial wind turbine, you likely picture the windmill design, technically known as a horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT). But the very first wind turbines, which ...

[Photo: World Wide Wind] How it works. The concept of vertical axis turbines is not new, but the architecture of this machine—which the company says is patent pending—is radically different.

Vertical-axis wind turbines have failed to make a dent in the thriving global wind energy business. But proponents say VAWTs may be particularly well suited to the emerging floating offshore market.

When we think of wind farms, most of us picture towering horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT), with their three ginormous blades spinning from a horizontal axis.But a vertical axis wind turbine ...

Horizontal-axis turbines come in a number of different styles and designs. These can harness the wind’s energy from multiple angles, so they don’t need to be adjusted when the wind changes ...

Sandia National Laboratories' wind energy researchers are re-evaluating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) to help solve some of the problems of generating energy from offshore breezes.

VAWTs spin around an axis vertical to the ground, and the team asserts that if they’re set in pairs, they’d be 15% more efficient because the wind turbines would increase each other’s ...

The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines. New research from Oxford ...

Traditionally, turbines take the form of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs). However, the research now proposes that Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) — which are more compact in design ...

Wind now accounts for 7.2% of power generated in the United States, and IceWind says that will be around 20% in less than a decade, by 2030. But most of that is the huge horizontal turbines you ...