Norwegian startup company World Wide Wind (WWW) has unveiled designs for floating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) for offshore wind farms to generate renewable energy. The turbines feature two ...
While offshore wind farms continue to play a growing part in the renewable energy mix, particularly in the US which recently approved its first major facility off the coast of Massachusetts, there ...
- 19 August 2024 - On August 13, OceanX, the world's largest single capacity floating wind power platform, embarked on its journey from Guangzhou to the Yangjiang Mingyang Qingzhou IV offshore wind ...
In recent years, major economies like the U.S. have laid out goals to ramp up floating wind installations. Disrupting the wind power industry is a colossal task that will require significant ...
High above the streets of Yibin City in southwest China, a helium-filled airship shaped like a streamlined Zeppelin has quietly become a functioning power plant. The S1500 system, described by its ...
VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The largest floating wind turbine in the world, an 8.4-megawatt (MW) ABS-classed offshore wind turbine, is about to be installed. It is the first of three ...
TotalEnergies SE has launched a pilot floating wind turbine project at the Culzean offshore platform in the United Kingdom’s portion of the North Sea. The three-megawatt (MW) floating wind turbine ...
China has built a new type of wind turbine that floats in the air. The high-altitude, airship-like machine has just passed ...
China claims to have launched the biggest and most powerful floating offshore wind turbine. The Chinese turbine, which is independently developed and made in China, has a rotor diameter of 260 meters.
Most of the world's greatest wind power resources are offshore – often a long way offshore, where the water's so deep that it's impractical to build typical fan-on-a-stick wind turbines with bases ...
Italian major Saipem and Siemens Energy have signed a tentative deal to jointly develop a floating electrical substation for use in offshore wind farms. With momentum building in a number of markets ...
Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it also has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly, making ...