Onshore and offshore wind, from turbine orders and grid connections to the politics that stall or speed them.
Place a turbine on a hilltop, the logic goes, and faster winds translate into more power — with output rising as the cube of the speed…
For five months last year, the steel legs standing in the water off Rhode Island did not move an inch closer to finished. A federal order…
Usually, offshore wind farms are judged by the clean energy they produce. What goes on beneath the turbines, however, is just as important. With more countries…
Rain seems like the last thing engineers should worry about when designing a wind turbine. Yet at the tip of a spinning blade, a raindrop can…
Europe has set itself an ambitious target: renewables covering at least 42.5 percent of its electricity by 2030, with wind already supplying nearly a fifth of…
A single car sits pulled onto the shoulder of a coastal road in North Gyeongsang Province, its driver on the phone. Above the tree line, a…
Wind farms lose a surprising share of their potential output to a simple problem: each turbine carves a corridor of depleted, slower-moving air — called a…
For decades, the ridgelines of Kern County’s Tehachapi mountains were lined with hundreds of small wind turbines — compact machines installed in the mid-1980s that had…
Nordex Group announced on October 27, 2026, that it received an order from DenkerWulf for nine N149/5.X wind turbines totaling 51.3 MW for the Bredenbek wind…
Offshore wind turbines don’t just spin — they also surge, sway, pitch, roll, and yaw as waves push against their floating platforms. Engineers have generally assumed…
The wind at Crater Hill does not gust so much as arrive, flattening everything that is not bolted down. Three white towers rise from the black…
The United States’ wind energy sector appears to be fully back on track following the brief period when many felt the Trump Administration was not supportive…
By 2030, some 65 gigawatts of European wind turbines will have outlived their original 20-year design life — a looming wave of aging machines that operators…
Wind turbines are built to spin. But some of their most dangerous moments happen when they’re standing perfectly still. During installation, commissioning, or periods when a…
The Snowflake Wind Project is stalled. But why? The developer is looking at other sites for the project and has delayed a presentation to the county…
A modern wind turbine is a machine under constant negotiation with the atmosphere. Its blades flex and twist through thousands of load cycles every hour, its…
New Mexico’s massive SunZia facility has helped American wind turbine orders to reach a three-year high. Accelerated turbine deployment is key to locking in federal tax…
Every spinning wind turbine leaves a wake — a churning column of disturbed air that can stretch for miles and cut into the energy output of…
A crane idles beside a ridge in southern Germany, its cable still looped around the last of dozens of curved gray segments. Each piece left a…
Wind farms are an exercise in compromise. Pack turbines too close together and each one robs momentum from those behind it, leaving a trail of slower,…
New England is breaking regional records in wind generation capacity. Across the northeastern United States, renewable electricity is rapidly being integrated into regional power networks. This…
A 15-megawatt wind turbine rising 150 meters above the North Sea, its 240-meter rotor sweeping through ocean air, looks like an engineering problem that’s been solved.…
A white shape the length of a football field climbs slowly out of a river valley in southwest China. It trails a tether instead of smoke.…
There is something in the Welsh countryside that has developers rethinking the the location of wind turbines. It had nothing to do with a change in…
Wind turbines rise along California’s ridgelines in quiet rows, turning steadily through the same sky that hawks, owls, and bats have navigated for centuries. For just…
Deep inside a wind turbine’s hub, a 16-foot blade bearing rotates through millions of cycles over its service life, held together — and kept clean —…
RES dropped notable news on October 26: its Smart Pilot turbine blade inspection software now works with smaller, more affordable drones — including the DJI Matrice…
Twice a day, a pilot radios the tower at a small Welsh airfield. They ask permission to land on a runway that technically does not exist…
Energy giant GE Vernova and the Boston Celtics announced a three-year partnership on October 27, 2026, at TD Garden — timed to coincide with the Celtics’…
Wind energy is expanding fast — but the economics aren’t keeping pace. Across Europe, auctions have failed in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Lithuania. Projects…
ONYX Insight just announced that ONYX Cortex, its AI-powered reliability and performance platform for the wind industry, cleared the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) and is…
A single tower rises out of the gray North Sea, its blades still except for the wind pushing against them for the first time. Within a…
Across parts of Europe, electricity prices occasionally turn negative — meaning the grid is so flooded with power that producers effectively pay to keep generating. For…
Wind farms have a geometry problem. Pack turbines too close together and each one robs the next of energy, leaving a trail of sluggish, depleted air…
Placing a wind turbine in rugged terrain sounds simple enough — until you need to know exactly how air accelerates over a ridge, curls around a…
Global Wind Service has completed the installation of all 76 turbines at Baltic Power, Poland’s first offshore wind farm. The milestone brings the approximately 1.2 GW…
Dawn breaks thin and cold over the Gulf of Suez. On a ridge above the turbines at Gabal El Zayt, a monitoring team lifts binoculars toward…
Germany is expanding its offshore wind capacity with minimal noise disruption to marine ecosystems. The nation has established highly ambitious climate targets, requiring high-capacity clean power…
TGS has launched a major seismic reprocessing initiative offshore Côte d’Ivoire, joining forces with the Direction Générale des Hydrocarbures (DGH) and PETROCI. Announced on October 20,…
A crane the height of a forty story building swings a steel cylinder wider than a two lane road out over open water. Below it, the…
A proposed Scottish wind farm will feature up to 67 large turbines that must account for sensitive upland wildlife. This facility will relieve the urgent pressure…
Wind turbines are among the most mechanically demanding machines in modern energy infrastructure — massive rotating structures exposed around the clock to temperature swings, vibration, and…
A golfer lines up a drive on the Scottish coast. Behind the green, eleven white towers turn slowly against the gray water of Aberdeen Bay. They…
Predicting how much power an offshore wind farm produces — and how much stress its turbines are accumulating — ideally happens fast enough to inform real-time…
Offshore wind turbines are built to survive storms. Their steel towers flex under hurricane-force gusts, and their control systems can feather blades in seconds to shed…
Above the plateau south of Glasgow, 215 wind turbines rotate continuously over an area that is slowly transforming into something new. Below them, where rows of…
A paddock outside Wellington just got a new heartbeat, and it hums at 330,000 volts. For months the site looked like a grid of empty steel…
The southern North Sea is filling with wind turbines faster than any other sea basin on Earth — and the farms are running out of room…
Jordan’s green energy developers are implementing crucial avifauna protection measures as wind capacity grows. The country’s renewable energy sector is rapidly expanding to diversify the national…
German wind turbine maker Nordex Group just landed its first-ever order from New Zealand. On October 22, 2026, the Hamburg-based manufacturer announced that Mercury — one…
