Wind Power
Wind Power Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind turbines standing in the Atlantic Ocean at sunrise

Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind farm delivers first grid power 28 miles off Virginia Beach

JUL 28 · 4 MIN
Wind Power close-up of a wind turbine pitch bearing inside a blade root hub connection, wind turbine blade

A wind turbine blade can weigh over 30 tons and its tip moves at close to 180 miles per hour, yet the hidden steel ring buried inside its root that twists it away from a storm is something almost nobody standing at the fence line ever imagines

JUL 28 · 5 MIN
Wind Power Charybdis WTIV installing a turbine at Coastal Virginia offshore wind farm

Dominion Energy’s Charybdis installs first turbine at the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia offshore wind farm

JUL 28 · 5 MIN
Wind Power close-up of a wind turbine gearbox bearing assembly on a workshop floor, clean 20 year

A wind turbine is sold as a clean 20-year investment the moment it starts spinning, and the up to $400,000 problem hiding inside the gearbox is something most Americans buying wind energy never think about

JUL 28 · 4 MIN
Wind Power Revolution Wind offshore wind turbines rising from the Atlantic Ocean

Revolution Wind’s 704 MW offshore farm begins delivering power to Rhode Island and Connecticut

JUL 27 · 5 MIN
Wind Power A 26 megawatt turbine standing at a land based test site

They just raised a 26 megawatt turbine with 502 foot blades on a test pad, and the detail that matters most to American developers is buried where nobody thinks to look

JUL 27 · 5 MIN
Wind Power SunZia wind farm turbines at dusk across central New Mexico scrubland

Pattern Energy’s SunZia wind farm in New Mexico begins commercial operations at 3,650 MW

JUL 27 · 4 MIN
Wind Power a wind turbine installation vessel lifting a turbine section at sea in overcast light

Shipowners are charging $525,000 a day for a single turbine installation vessel, and the bottleneck behind that number has almost nothing to do with the ships themselves

JUL 27 · 5 MIN
Wind Power Recovered glass fiber from a wind turbine blade in a recycling plant

A wind turbine blade can run beyond 170 feet, and when it wears out a Tennessee company bakes the whole thing down to recover the clean glass fiber the industry once paid to bury

JUL 27 · 5 MIN
Wind Power New wind machine on posts dwarfed by a tall wind turbine

A Wyoming startup just broke ground on a wind machine barely 80 feet tall, and the strange trick that lets it undercut a full size wind turbine by nearly 2 million dollars is unlike anything on the grid

JUL 26 · 4 MIN
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