It may resemble a giant rotary washing line, but it might just help Britain meet its hugely ambitious new wind energy targets. At least that's the claim of the company developing a novel "vertical ...

A concept rendering of offshore vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). What makes renewable energy so exciting is the immense economic potential of groundbreaking technology advancements. A recent ...

So 99% of all large-scale industrial wind turbines are horizontal axis, with three-bladed propellers. There's been lots of attempts at vertical axis as well. But the novelty here is really two things: ...

The awareness of a greener future and its benefits is getting all the right attention in Europe. With the current climate conditions and with energy bills skyrocketing, every other person in the ...

Wind power is a highly contentious mode of generating renewable energy. Wind turbines have been criticised by politicians and laymen alike for as long as they have been around. This new innovation in ...

The search for renewable energy sources that are efficient and cost-effective has affected all sectors, and wind energy is no different. If we stop to think about current turbines, we will see that ...

The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines. New research has found that the ...

Norwegian companies Norsk Hydro and World Wide Wind announced this week plans to use sustainable and recyclable materials such as aluminium in the construction of floating offshore wind turbines.

You would expect an advocate of electromobility (aka “the dEVil’s advocate” – pun intended) to be open-minded. But I assure you I sometimes have a very hard time understanding and accepting some weird ...

Schools of fish have shown engineers how to squeeze much more power from wind farms. A new wind farm design mimics a school of fish to exploit wind turbulence, and could dramatically improve power ...