Building towers for wind turbines 10 times faster and up to twice as tall as today’s conventional technology is something for prime-time news. The new technology can help speed up the deployment of ...

As wind turbines continue to grow taller and more powerful, the challenge of installing ...

For decades, wind power has relied on a familiar formula: enormous towers, vast concrete foundations and specialised ...

The wheels have begun to turn on an interesting new form of wind turbine in Sweden, with the country’s first wooden power-generation tower now complete. Built from sustainably sourced materials and ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. One of the many complaints we hear about wind turbines from ...

Wind turbines were built to turn moving air into electricity. Now engineers say some of those same towers could do something ...

The UHL Felicity arrived this week in New Bedford, carrying tower sections made in Portugal for use in the Vineyard Wind project that is going up south of Martha’s Vineyard starting this summer. This ...

AMES, Iowa – Grant Schmitz, eyes inches from a 6.5-by-12-foot panel of ultra-high performance concrete, studied the smooth surface for tiny cracks. He and other research engineers carefully marked ...

The offshore wind industry reached another size milestone with a top manufacturer announcing plans for a turbine with blades that stretch nearly the height of the Eiffel Tower. China’s Ming Yang Smart ...

Danish turbine maker says it has become a minority investor in Modvion, which uses laminated veneer lumber, or LVL, to make turbine towers. As technology develops, the size of wind turbines is ...

To address the challenge of suppressing low-frequency vibrations in offshore wind turbine towers under complex environmental loads, this paper innovatively proposes a pendulum-tuned particle damper ...