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In a long-awaited, historic step toward “real" not cookbook wind engineering, the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers recently issued a recommended alternative ...

Researchers at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed an AI-based tool that could significantly boost the efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of future wind ...

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The SQUID system designed by Encomara and manufactured by Aurora Energy Services (AES) which will fundamentally improve how ...

Wind turbine maker General Electric had been locked in a multi-year patent infringement battle with rival Siemens Gamesa over design of its landmark Haliade-X offshore model and sales in the in U.S.

The year 2023 doesn’t sound like a good time to be a wind power startup. Take Ørsted, the Danish wind company: It recently announced that it would be taking a charge of up to $5.6 billion this year, ...

Researchers from Chongqing University and PowerChina developed a two-parallel cable-truss CSPS to improve torsional ...

Many designers of utility scale wind turbines dismiss the idea of using turbines to capture energy from light breezes and in areas where there isn't a lot of wind. Their argument comes from Betz's law ...

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