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 ...

This week, BBC News is taking an in-depth look at offshore wind turbines, and the challenges, costs and construction of these sea giants. Here, science correspondent David Shukman heads out to the ...

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 ...

View Slideshow. While our oceans ... Norsk Hydro expects to be able to use this technology on sites located 50-100 miles off shore, ... + Floating wind turbine may be in sea by 2009@ Stuff ...

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 ...

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 ...

300-foot piece of debris from broken wind turbine falls into sea off Nantucket 00:34. NANTUCKET - The rest of a giant broken Vineyard Wind turbine blade fell into the sea off Nantucket ...

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 ...