Drag-based wind energy design. Aiming to translate its expertise in manufacturing monocoque, ribbed components with thermoplastic microspheres, Xenecore is working to develop a fan-shaped, drag-based ...

When a wind turbine reaches the end of its life after two or three decades, the giant blades attached to it usually end up in a landfill. That’s largely because of the materials that are used. “[The ...

Vertical-axis wind turbines are great candidates to enable wind power extraction in urban and off-shore applications. Currently, concerns around turbine efficiency and structural integrity limit their ...

New wind turbines installed across the United States in 2023 arrived with rotors averaging 133.8 meters in diameter, a span ...

Several critical variables in experimental design- such as type, size, material, and wind speed- influence the mechanical characteristics and performance of wind turbines. The novel contribution of ...

GE (NYSE: GE), Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), have announced that they will begin work on a project aimed to ...

We4Ce (Almelo, Netherlands), a Dutch rotor blade design and technology supplier, announced completion of end-to-end blade tests in India for a novel 2.5-3-megawatt (MW) rotor blade currently under ...

Julien Sellier, Engineering Director of STRUCTeam, commenting on the gaining of the contracts said “We are naturally delighted to win these two contracts in the strategically important Chinese wind ...

The July 13 collapse of a blade on an 853-ft-tall turbine at the giant Vineyard Wind offshore wind project off southern Massachusetts was due to a "manufacturing deviation," not design or engineering, ...