We reported on GE’s “brilliant” wind turbine previously. The turbine integrates energy storage, and it also allows for a tremendous amount of data collection, prediction, and responsiveness. Below is a video of General Electric (GE) technicians …

Wind and solar are growing rapidly worldwide, but because the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, we need to find more ways to store energy. That’s a huge challenge, and we’ll probably end up using a mix of technologies to reach …

Offshore wind could provide abundant electricity — but as with solar energy, this power supply can be intermittent and unpredictable. But a new approach from researchers at MIT could mitigate that problem, allowing the electricity generated by …

Vestas Wind Systems, a Danish wind turbine maker with four Colorado manufacturing plants, virtually tied General Electric Co. in terms of global wind energy market share in 2012 in a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, based in London. The two …

I know we’re not supposed to choose a favourite — we should love them all equally — but I have always loved wind energy more than the others. It has a majesty and simplicity to it that I find really attractive. So I really enjoy reporting on wind …

Wind farms may be hitting the big time, but that hasn’t deterred inventors and technologists from tinkering, or even reinventing, the turbine itself. In the past few months we’ve seen wind energy systems that use discs attached to hydraulics and even …

The American Wind Energy Association in a report released Thursday said that in 2012 only two other states — Texas and California — built more wind generation. Kansas more than doubled its production capacity during the year. That pushed it from 14th …

North Sea Wind Farm Has Positive Net Impact On Fauna, Researchers Say A North-Sea wind farm has few negative effects on fauna. Most birds avoided the wind turbines, although rotating blades can have a significant disruptive effect on some species of birds. It turns out that a wind farm also provides a new habitat for [...]

Bold New Approach to Wind ‘Farm’ Design May Provide Efficiency Gains Conventional wisdom suggests that because we’re approaching the theoretical limit on individual wind turbine efficiency, wind energy is now a mature technology. But California Institute of Technology researchers revisited some of the fundamental assumptions that guided the wind industry for the past 30 years, [...]

Large wind farms are being built around the world as a cleaner way to generate electricity, but operators are still searching for the most efficient way to arrange the massive turbines that turn moving air into power. To help steer wind farm owners in the right direction, Charles Meneveau, a Johns Hopkins fluid mechanics and [...]

A milestone in the history of renewable energy occurred in the year 2008 when more new wind-turbine power generation capacity was added in the U.S. than new coal-fired power generation. The costs of producing power with wind turbines continues to drop, but many engineers feel that the overall design of turbines is still far from [...]