In the past, when designing the profile of rotor blades, the layout of wind turbines in a farm, or the day-to-day operation of wind turbines, engineers have relied on ad hoc adjustments added to the ...

Mulling a problem with the positioning of wind turbines and the production decrease resulting from the turbulence within wind farms, the question has arisen whether they will ever be as valuable a ...

TGS has started its first offshore wind and meteorological and oceanographic measurement campaign in Australia, commissioned by High Sea Wind, an Ocean Winds project.The one-year deployment will take ...

In the latest blow for the US offshore wind industry, the Trump administration announced Monday it is suspending the federal ...

Terry Husted lives in DeWitt County, a major pathway for migrating birds in central Illinois. After a company submitted plans to construct a wind farm in his area, Husted said he grew worried about ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. President Donald Trump recently criticized wind farms while ...

Flaw detection in high-voltage transmission lines. Types of neutral grounding. Advantages of an offshore all-DC offshore wind power solution. The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) ...

Many transmission structures are tested to failure at full-scale, leading to an improved understanding of capacity compared to most structures. Typically when extreme wind events occur, the maximum ...

Plonk a collection of colossal, whirling blades in any location, and it's practically guaranteed that some birds will die. Yet many of the strongest backers of offshore wind farms are wildlife ...

China has about 44% of the world’s wind farm capacity, ranking No. 1 globally and almost tripling what the U.S. has. China is also planning or building more wind farm capacity than any other country.

The blades of propellers and wind turbines are designed based on aerodynamics principles that were first described mathematically more than a century ago. But engineers have long realized that these ...