In June, the 2.3-MW Hywind facility, the world’s first large-scale floating wind turbine, was towed to a North Sea location with a water depth of about 220 meters (722 feet) and began operation ...

China has unveiled the world’s most powerful direct-drive floating wind turbine, marking a major leap in renewable energy innovation. The 17-megawatt unit was developed by state-owned enterprises ...

After an exhausting ascent, science correspondent David Shukman describes the view from the top of a wind turbine.

A giant wind turbine blade fell into the sea. It washed up on Nantucket. The accident south of Cape Cod, Mass., involving the country’s largest offshore wind farm, is galvanizing opposition to ...

“We know that without a change in plans, the communities of Sea Girt, Wall, Howell and Manasquan — who are being forced to host the huge cables coming off the wind turbines — will be the ...

Wind turbines are getting bigger. Last week, the world’s most powerful wind turbine rose out of the sea off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland. It’s the first of eleven such beasts which will ...

Today’s offshore wind turbines stand taller than the Boston skyline. Each blade is about the length of a football field, which means 50 feet have to be cut off to get one inside the state’s Wind ...

Norwegian energy group Norsk Hydro is to place giant floating wind turbines in the North Sea that will provide a reasonable, environmentally-friendly and economically feasible alternative to ...

A piece of a broken wind turbine blade as long as a football field fell into the sea off Nantucket, Massachusetts Thursday.

The prize was more than thirty miles off the German coast. Rising 300 feet from the surface of the North Sea was a forest of shimmering fiberglass-and-steel wind turbines. In his dreams ...

Today’s offshore wind turbines stand taller than the Boston skyline. Each blade is about the length of a football field, which means 50 feet have to be cut off to get one inside the state’s ...