The WTTC opened in 2011 and has since evolved to test longer wind turbine blades (Credit: DOE) When WTTC opened in 2011, it tested land-based wind turbine blades that typically spanned around 50 ...

When comparing the efficiency of different wind turbine blade designs, [AdamEnt] found using a hair dryer wasn’t the best tool for the job. Enter his new 3D-printed wind tunnel. After several ...

A new system using hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing of embedded-control software releases keeps turbines up on the farm For its wind turbine control systems, Siemens’ engineers faced the challenge ...

Over the past decade, wind energy has moved from a small and novel technology to a major portion of new energy construction. The size and complexity of wind projects has increased and many companies ...

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. -- Imagine being a specialty window cleaner for cleaning the outside windows on skyscrapers. It takes a gutsy individual who thrives on adrenalin rushes to take on this role, a ...

Wind power has always been a trade off between clean energy and the visual, acoustic, and ecological cost of giant spinning ...

Orange-based energy company Avangrid is working with a Yale University-student led startup that is developing a process to recycle wind turbine blades. Avangrid announced Wednesday that it has donated ...

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