Wind turbines keep getting bigger: Each blade can be longer than a football field, and one offshore turbine recently installed in China is as tall as a 50-story building. Making the base to hold up a ...

The first modern wind turbines designed for bulk electricity generation came online gradually throughout the 80s and early 90s. By today’s standards these turbines are barely recognizable. They were ...

After retirement, wind turbine components are typically recycled or placed in a landfill. The materials making up turbine blades are more difficult to recycle, posing a problem for sustainable ...

While all of these elements have influenced the rapid expansion of wind turbines worldwide, environmental and geopolitical ...

Small-scale wind turbines that don’t resemble the rotating fans seen on typical wind farms could start popping up around the state under an ambitious plan by a startup company. A firm headed by an ...