Sweden’s Modvion AB has set its sights even higher for its next generation of wind-turbine towers as the industry’s ...

However, while the electricity it generates has a small carbon footprint, the towers of conventional wind turbines are predominately made using carbon-intensive materials like steel. Swedish ...

A small wind turbine can be surprisingly affordable — as long as you don't have to mount it on a tall tower to catch the wind ...

The taller the tower, the wider the base needs to be, to support the massive weight of the machinery above it and to resist the loads placed on it by the wind. The current crop of 80 m turbines ...

A new wind turbine installed in the Taiwan Strait went ... with a 260 m rotor diameter ( three each 123 m blades ) sitting atop a 152 m tower. The location is both a blessing and a curse, being ...

However, the wind turbines towers must not face south – ideally, the PV systems should be built with an east-west orientation. In the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone, Saage sees the ...

Over the past decade, wind turbine use has increased more than 25 percent per year. Still, it only provides a small fraction of the world's energy. Most wind energy comes from turbines that can be ...

A wind turbine off the coast of Nantucket that broke apart last year has been damaged again by a lightning strike.

On Feb. 27, lightning reportedly struck the same Vineyard Wind turbine that had a blade failure in July 2024. Here's what we know.