Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world’s first urban wind turbine designed by AI has been unveiled in the UK. Called the Birmingham Blade, the turbine is ...

A Spanish startup's vibrating pole generates electricity with no blades, no noise, and no bird strikes — and it could sit ...

SeaTwirl floating wind turbines assemble via flat-pack shipping to simplify deep-water installation and bypass the need for ...

Researchers at Concordia University have developed a new way to make small wind turbines, ...

Lower costs, cheaper wind turbines and hurricane safe. That’s the future of offshore wind energy promised by SeaTwirl, a company that makes vertical wind turbines. These new turbines have capabilities ...

Wind turbine maker General Electric had been locked in a multi-year patent infringement battle with rival Siemens Gamesa over design of its landmark Haliade-X offshore model and sales in the in U.S.

The type of wind turbine you’re used to seeing in stock photos of wind farms is called a horizontal axis wind turbine (or, HAWT). But there is another form of wind power, called a vertical axis wind ...

Windmills and wind turbines share the same spinning blades, but these wind-powered structures have very different roles. Here ...

On a recent winter day on a wind farm in Germany, workers scaled 544-foot-tall wind turbines and started adding fringe-like attachments to the massive blades. The design, inspired by the shape of owl ...

A wildly innovative turbine that could halve the cost of offshore wind is set to go into testing in Norway. The 19-m (62-ft), 30-kW, contra-rotating vertical-axis turbine is a prototype of a design ...

Consider the inside of a typical wind turbine nacelle. It will contain a gearbox, electrical controls, a generator, hub mounting, blade controls, and several other major systems. In the case of ...