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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Keystone Tower Systems and GE Renewable Energy recently unveiled the world's first spiral-welded tower on a 2.8 MW GE turbine, marking a significant turning point in the development of tapered spiral ...

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 ...

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 ...

AMES, Iowa – Sri Sritharan called up a digital map of the United States and pointed to a dark blue band running through the middle of the country. That’s wind country. The blue band runs east from the ...

Within about a dozen years, floating wind turbines — as tall as the Eiffel Tower — will stand alongside the cranes and cargo containers at the Port of Long Beach as part of the largest offshore wind ...

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 ...

Swedish engineering and industrial design company Modvion has erected the first wooden wind turbine tower on an island outside Gothenburg, Sweden. It was a pilot project for the Swedish Wind ...