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The panels come from rooftops and fields across the country, most of them past their rated life. They arrive by the truckload at a 255,000 square…
Solar farms typically chase sunlight for an entire year. However, this does not apply to this one. This site combines both uses. The racking was installed…
The field at Foulum looked like any other wheat farm in central Denmark. Except part of it held rows of solar panels standing perfectly upright, facing…
The three blades of a spinning wind turbine look almost like nothing at all from the front. They blur into a faint, pale disc against the…
The equipment cabinet sat inside its fenced compound, as it had every day since commissioning. Then, on a February evening near Bendigo, it was on fire.…
The blade lies on the plant floor in sawn pieces, each one longer than a city bus. Workers guide it into a shredder, and what comes…
Haakon County in South Dakota is getting set for 87 new wind turbines, and thousands of acres are being developed to accommodate 333 megawatts of electricity…
The permit said the route was clear. A crew loaded a wind turbine blade onto a specialist trailer near Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, and rolled west toward Iowa…
An energy-storage system made up of a series of tanks filled with a special liquid achieved full capacity on a hilltop in southwest England. Unlike systems…
The boulder pile looked like nothing special from the surface. A ring of rough rock dumped around a turbine leg to stop the seabed from washing…
The fronds are the size of your hand and feel like wet tissue paper. They grow on rocks just below the tideline on coasts around the…
Canada approved the first 3 tidal power plants under a 6-plant program for the Bay of Fundy. The turbines are designed to arrive by sea. Once…
Washington’s Sequim Bay was the location of a research study involving underwater camera systems. The point was to learn how local marine life interacts with subsea…
Virginia’s Piedmont Environmental Council developed a project featuring 42 solar panels above a field of vegetables. And they did it right next to where the veggies…
On a January morning in Zeewolde, a row of rainbow painted wind turbines stood in the flat polder landscape as they had for close to a…
The call came in on a Friday afternoon in Peterborough, England, and the first crews found something that does not show up in most fire training.…
The steel tube arrived at the site lying on its side, like a fallen smokestack. It was 275 feet long and 35 feet wide. A crane…
Five wind turbines in the Swiss Alps sit at 6,890-foot altitude, directly in a major bird migration path. Gotthard wind farm operators are aware of the…
Most of the eastern Irish Sea is a floor with nothing standing on it. Sand, gravel and a thin scatter of shell, worked flat by tide…
As fall colors Ontario’s trees, another seasonal change is taking place across the province’s wind farms. Bat fatalities are typically at their highest during late-summer activity…
In France, researchers decide to paint zebra stripes and a checkered pattern on a wind turbine. They encountered a problem. The warning system is not equal…
Every survey method has an opinion about what counts as an insect. A trap does not sample the air. It samples whatever that particular trap is…
The Yakima Basin in Washington State is undergoing a seasonal shift that affects how water moves through the river system. Each year when this happens, the…
Glass fiber does not burn, which is the whole reason a blade is difficult. Everything around it burns perfectly well. The resin that binds the laminate…
Solar panels lose output as they warm up, and almost nobody outside the industry knows it. A silicon cell gives its rated power at a mild…
The two fields in southern Minnesota looked abandoned at first glance. Rows of solar panels stood over what had been cropland, and between the rows, seed…
An oversize permit contains one clearance number for every structure on the route. That number is the vertical distance from the road surface to the lowest…
Conservationists have concerns about fish health when man-made structures are introduced into marine ecosystems. Norway’s Hywind Tampen is the largest floating wind farm in the world,…
A lot of things happen every odd-numbered year in the fall around Squamish. Every odd-numbered year in the fall, many fish come up the Cheakamus River.…
Four floating solar platforms sit on a lagoon at Tumaraa, in French Polynesia, about 383 yards from shore. Below them, in water warm enough to bleach…
The process of power dam hydropeaking creates sudden surges in the river that can sweep juvenile fish downstream. Researchers wanted to know how the fish are…
The turbines at Gutaishan were still turning when the first fog rolled in. Within days, half the machines that had been running were offline. No blade…
For years, two cranberry bogs in Massachusetts produced no berries. But then in 2025, the bogs did produce again. It was all under the rows of…
A turbine blade out in an Iowa cornfield can run for about two decades before anyone touches it again. Then a crew cuts it into thirds…
Bats in Germany appear to be using wind turbine rotor zones as stages for their courtship songs and dances. Acoustic sensors set up at nacelle height…
A field outside a village in northern Hesse, a single turbine, and a rotor that looks ordinary from the road. It is not ordinary. Each of…
The first Autumn eels have been spotted on sonar monitors at a hydroelectric dam in Switzerland. From September 2026 through January 2027, researchers at the Schaffhausen…
Researchers in Wyoming have picked up that flying insects tend to gather in high numbers around white wind turbines. They studied a 17-mile stretch of a wind…
At 1:52 on a Friday afternoon, a neighbor on Head of the Bay Road in Plymouth, Massachusetts, looked up at a familiar silhouette and saw something…
The red-colored blades already installed on seven wind turbines at Hollandse Kust West in the North Sea disrupt the uniform appearance the uniform appearance of a…
Chalk and sand seabed off the Sussex coast, about 60 feet down, flat in every direction. A steel monopile comes out of it carrying a wind…
Solar panels are not known for their aesthetics, and this is one of the reasons why there is resistance to their adoption. Conventional panels have to…
A plant floor in eastern Iowa, and a bulk sack of white fiber that used to be a wind turbine. The blade came down after two…
A pumpkin patch has grown into a popular fall destination in California’s Central Valley. Sunlight powers the solar panels that help generate electricity for the farm’s…
Engineers in Beijing have come up with a wind turbine application whereby the blades change color according to the season. Installations in extreme climates come with…
An insect spends most of its life beneath the surface of the water before ever taking flight. It has become the focus of a rather unusual…
Forty five feet down in the Moray Firth, on a seabed of rippled sand that runs flat for miles. A steel frame settles on the bottom…
A panel is lying face up on a steel bench, the size of a door. A head moves above it, and a thin green line crawls…
Urban stormwater management ponds are increasingly repurposed for floating solar installations to generate clean power without using valuable land. Researchers monitored an Orlando stormwater pond where…
Swim under one of these and look up. The surface overhead is not plastic anymore. It is furred, shell against shell, in a layer thick enough…
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