A 436-foot-long (133-meter-long), 73.8-ton (67-tonne) wind turbine blade was successfully loaded onto a ship at Yangzhou Port ...

This halt to new offshore wind leases followed a multi-year stretch in which the industry struggled with high interest rates, ...

Wind turbines in the North Sea face extreme weather conditions that cause erosion to the turbine blades. The PROWESS research, led by TNO, shows that a substantial part of the damage to offshore wind ...

While horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs ... The team suggests two pitch profiles for VAWT blades that result in a 200 percent boost in turbine efficiency and a 77 percent decrease in vibrations ...

In what appears to be a remarkable coincidence, lightning apparently struck the remains of the Vineyard Wind turbine blade that crumbled ... a fraught time for the offshore wind industry.

No matter how beneficial generating wind energy is, at the end of their life wind turbine blades end up as landfill. In Europe alone, some 60,000 tonnes of composite sheet waste will be involved ...

2020) In a study by Verma et al. (2020) in Composite Structures, the force distribution of rain droplets for offshore wind turbine blades was examined. Using a range of modeling techniques ...

Global wind turbine rotor blade market will reach $39.46 billion by 2027, growing by 11.1% annually over 2020-2027 driven by the increasing application of offshore wind turbines, decreasing levelized ...

However, the offshore ... hit the broken turbine on either Thursday or Friday, according to conflicting reports of the timing. As of Sunday afternoon, Vineyard Wind said no blade debris has ...

Bad luck strikes again. The same wind turbine blade that scattered debris across local beaches last summer was apparently struck by lightning last week. Vineyard Wind’s visual inspection showed ...