With over 350,000 wind turbines currently in use globally, wind continues to be one of the fastest growing forms of renewable energy. In 2021, 93.6 GW of new installations brought global cumulative ...

Series compensation grids connected with type-3 wind turbine generator (WTG)-based wind farms have suffered numerous subsynchronous oscillation (SSO) events worldwide. For early alerting of SSO and ...

As renewable energy sources gain distinction in distributed power generation, micro-grid systems integrating solar photovoltaic (PV), micro-turbine-based wind energy, and flywheel energy storage have ...

For decades, wind power has relied on a familiar formula: enormous towers, vast concrete foundations and specialised ...

These remarkable modular wind turbines stack themselves up section by section, removing the need for gigantic cranes and promising to slash the cost of offshore wind installation by as much as half.

The US has just approved a new floating offshore wind system, which is designed ...

Norwegian company Wind Catching Systems is developing a floating, multi-turbine technology for wind farms that could generate five times the annual energy of the world’s largest, single wind turbine.

As the wind energy industry matures, operators and service providers are increasingly focused on maximizing turbine ...

Western Australia's Twin Hills wind farm gets a green light after proving its turbine blades won't harm endangered cockatoos.

Namibia’s new wind farm avoids giant cranes to build taller turbines. Discover how this self-lifting tech changes clean ...

Humanity has been harvesting energy from the wind for centuries. The practice goes back at least to 8th century Persia where the first known historical records of windmills came, but likely extends ...

The government is introducing a "lifecycle management system" for the first time for aging wind power generators that have ...