WindTronics is one of many wind companies trying to crack into the clean energy industry. Can it make wind power affordable and revitalize manufacturing at the same time? Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

MidAmerican's radar that will turn on wind turbine warning lights when a plane is detected. Residents of four Iowa counties may notice there are no red lights now blinking in the night sky.

A new system using hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing of embedded-control software releases keeps turbines up on the farm For its wind turbine control systems, Siemens’ engineers faced the challenge ...

Louisville, CO, October 7, 2013 — Boulder Wind Power (BWP) announced today that the latest test results of its patented printed circuit board (PCB) stator technology prove a clear advantage in ...

Renewable energy at sea isn't limited to offshore wind turbines. There are also devices that go under the water, harnessing wave and tidal power. Reporter Emma Jacobs visited Scotland's Orkney Islands ...

Floating wind turbines are crucial to the future of offshore wind, and to bring energy costs down to a competitive level, they require radically different thinking. French company Eolink is starting ...

A superconducting rotor has been successfully tested on an active wind turbine for the first time. The researchers designed, developed, manufactured a full-size superconducting generator for a 3.6 ...

Wind energy is taking off all over again. This time, literally. In China, a multi-institute research and development project has created a series of large-scale floating turbine prototypes. The helium ...

Discover how to build a simple DIY wind turbine using basic household items like an aluminum can, copper wire, and cardboard.

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. -- Imagine being a specialty window cleaner for cleaning the outside windows on skyscrapers. It takes a gutsy individual who thrives on adrenalin rushes to take on this role, a ...

The UK government is putting £86m ($108m) in funding towards test facilities for offshore wind “super turbines” that could one day hit 28MW capacity – enough for each to power a small town. “Ambitious ...