Onshore and offshore wind, from turbine orders and grid connections to the politics that stall or speed them.
A blacktip shark glides through shallow, sunlit waters off Palm Beach County, Florida — unhurried, with nothing visible nearby to disturb it. Then a low-frequency pulse…
At an event on MIT’s Cambridge campus Tuesday, GE Vernova announced a goal that stands out even by the standards of a company already recruiting heavily…
Far off the coast of IJmuiden, 795 megawatts of offshore wind power are now being installed in the skies above the North Sea. However, the OranjeWind…
At a faraway place like the Pilbara in Western Australia, where the landscape is extremely difficult to access, the first turbine blades are now reaching the…
On October 1, 2026, GE Vernova and PROTEC held a graduation ceremony at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg for 27 students drawn from 9…
Within the fields spanning the villages of Hommerdingen and Biesdorf, in the secluded region of Südeifel, which is located close to the borders of Luxembourg, in…
France is raising its renewable energy capacity by deploying floating wind turbines in the Mediterranean Sea. The nation has set ambitious decarbonization targets, with offshore generation…
Fifty miles of open water separate the fishing town of Łeba from the steel forest now standing in the Baltic Sea. For two years a fleet…
The lights never turn off in a control room in Vancouver, Washington, where operators watch over the heartbeat of 1,200 wind turbines operating across four Western…
Designing an offshore wind farm means making dozens of interconnected decisions before a single turbine is placed — which wind model to use, how to define…
Fog sat motionless over the flat farmland of western Finland, thick enough to blur the tops of the turbine towers into the gray sky. Up close,…
When engineers plan a wind farm, they typically pull atmospheric data from right around turbine height — the zone where the blades will actually spin. In…
There is a total of 1,854 square kilometers of sea area near Newcastle, New South Wales, which has been identified by Australia as its Hunter offshore…
Across the high desert of Utah, there are 165 turbines in operation at the Milford Wind Farm in Beaver and Millard counties, with each turbine rotating…
The convoy carrying the blade into Iron Gate, Virginia, could not take a straight line through town. Each rotor blade stretched 254 feet, nearly the length…
Scotland is set to develop a major wind farm project that has a much more sustainable footprint. The nation is advancing its net-zero emissions targets with…
Somewhere inside a high-performance computing cluster at the University of South Florida, an AI model spent months working through 1.2 million satellite images of the world’s…
The jackup vessel had not long finished its previous job when it moved on. Vole au Vent spent early 2026 planting the last of 61 turbines…
Nordex Energy South Africa has introduced its N193/7.X wind turbine to the local market — a machine built not for the country’s established coastal wind corridors,…
Wind power generation is becoming more sustainable thanks to innovative recyclable materials. Nations worldwide are accelerating their transitions to clean energy to meet strict international climate…
Spearhead-shaped and no bigger than a bacterial cell, they had been sitting in North Atlantic seafloor sediment for 97 million years. Scientists who studied these microscopic…
Four projects. Nearly 90 MW. One auction round. That’s a solid result for any developer, and European Energy’s latest win from Germany’s Federal Network Agency makes…
The Horse Heaven Hills are a series of windswept ridges located east of Kennewick, Washington. These open spaces are a place where pronghorn antelope migrate every…
DeepOcean and TFKable Group — the controlling entity behind Tele-Fonika Kable and JDR Cable Systems — have agreed to form a joint venture targeting integrated EPCI…
Ørsted’s Barrow Offshore Wind Farm just hit 20 years of commercial operation, two decades since its 30 turbines and 90 MW of capacity first started generating…
The turbine itself was not the noisiest item in the water. In the waters off Naples, an underwater microphone listening near the Hexafloat scale model created…
Nordex Group announced on September 29 that it secured a 42 MW order from Navaris — Qualitas Energy’s German renewable energy platform — for the Lambacher…
The last blade tip locked into place above Schipkau on a blustery Tuesday in early October, 984 feet above the ground of what was, not long…
A chain from one of the floating wind turbines was resting more than 800 feet beneath the surface in the mud of the North Sea. In…
Floating offshore wind is rising over Spanish waters, increasing ecological impact concerns about protected marine species. Strict European decarbonization targets are pressuring nations to accelerate clean…
San Francisco-based Sunrun installed 1.5 gigawatt-hours of residential battery storage in 2025 — nearly half of the 3.1 GWh added nationally that year, according to SEIA’s…
Nordex Group locked in a 42 MW wind farm order on September 29 from Navaris, Qualitas Energy’s German renewable platform, for the Lambacher Höh project in…
Off the northeast coast of Scotland, five turbines rise nearly 100 meters above the North Sea — the world’s first commercial floating offshore wind farm. A…
Nordex Group dropped three updates for its N175/6.X wind turbine on April 22, 2026. The German manufacturer rolled out a 7.3 MW power mode, launched a…
The Mississippi Delta has always been flat land under a heavy sky, and for a long time that sky held almost nothing useful for a wind…
Tethered kites built for wind power can now map atmospheric turbulence at altitudes that radar masts and lidars have never reached — while generating electricity Hundreds…
Every year in both spring and fall, whooping cranes migrate through the central part of North America in perhaps the most dangerous migratory journey on the…
Three semi-submerged turbines sit out at sea off the coast of Northern Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean. WindFloat Atlantic was designed to harness the power of…
The road climbs out of Schweighof in tight curves, barely wide enough for a farm truck, and on the morning of August 27 it was carrying…
Among the wide-open grasslands of Haakon County in South Dakota, the federal surveyors proceeded with their binoculars and notebooks, observing the wildlife as part of the…
Nordex Group announced on October 1 that it locked in a 56 MW wind turbine order from WEB Windenergie AG for the Auersthal RI repowering project…
On a flat, scarred plain southeast of Berlin, workers stood back and looked straight up for a very long time. What rose above them was no…
Every year in the high sagebrush habitat of Wyoming, the mule deer migrate with their fawns to winter grounds, but for the last several decades, scientists…
Long-term wildlife monitoring has become essential as wind power generation expands across the West. Meeting ambitious national climate targets as energy consumption continues to increase is…
Steel, concrete, months of heavy machinery — building a wind farm comes with a real carbon price tag before a single kilowatt reaches the grid. The…
Nineteen kilometers from the coast of Provence, France, research boat travels into the Gulf of Fos, with crew members looking out for something in the water,…
Wind facilities are expanding across Nebraska, raising ecological impact concerns about endangered migrating species. The American Heartland is becoming a new frontier for clean energy generation…
Nippon Steel Corporation has handed Tenova a contract to supply what will be the world’s largest Consteel® Electric Arc Furnace at its Yawata Works facility in…
No wind turbines are floating nearby these machines. This is the whole idea. Twenty-one acoustic devices have been installed in the Celtic Sea, located at the…
Two U.S. states are testing feasible bird deterrent methods at wind farms as part of conservation efforts. Commercial-scale renewable energy facilities are rapidly expanding across the…
