Transpower’s ‘flying clothesline’ wind turbine setup. Despite the claims made by Airloom, they’re not the first to have this idea, with Transpower in the 1980s making itself famous with ...

The Direct Drive Wind Turbine Market is growing with demand for efficient, low-maintenance turbines, driven by renewable energy adoption. Growing demand for efficient, gearless wind turbines ...

Bad luck strikes again. The same wind turbine blade that scattered debris across local beaches last summer was apparently struck by lightning last week. Vineyard Wind’s visual inspection showed ...

It credits Sheffield as having had a significant impact on its strategy and innovation capacity. Early wind turbine generators used a gearbox, but as these proved to be the least reliable part of 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 ...

In 2010, the University of Delaware and Gamesa Technology Corporation (now Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy) joined forces to install a utility-scale 2-megawatt (2-MW) wind turbine at UD’s Hugh R.

A wind turbine off the coast of Nantucket in Massachusetts that broke apart last year has been damaged again by a lightning strike. The company behind the turbine, Vineyard Wind, said the damage ...