China has built a new type of wind turbine that floats in the air. The high-altitude, airship-like machine has just passed ...

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 ...

The ScotWind lease round spawned as many as 14 floating wind projects, accounting for about 19GW. Not all of them will make ...

A floating power station? China’s flying wind turbine hits milestone with grid-connected test Wind power could soon come from ...

Growing concern from government across the globe regarding renewable power source is anticipated to boost floating wind turbine market growth. According to a report published by Allied Market Research ...

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.

The world’s most powerful direct-drive floating offshore wind turbine, rated at 17 MW and co-developed by Dongfang Electric Corporation and China Huaneng, has been rolled out in China. With the ...

The University of Maine plans to launch an experimental floating wind turbine in the next week, less than a month after the Trump administration cut funding for the project. The floating platform and ...

A new 20 MW wind turbine designed for floating applications was recently successfully hoisted in China, setting the stage for its testing phase. The state-owned company CRRC has declared this new unit ...

A group of BYU students is hard at work designing energy-efficient solutions for a national competition. More than 40 students from the BYU Wind Energy Club and an engineering capstone team will be ...

As wind blows it generates kinetic energy, which is energy from movement. This turns the blades on a turbine, which then causes a shaft (drive shaft) within the system to rotate (view diagram below).

Danish wind turbine maker Vestas has signed and agreement with WindPlus for the deployment of the first offshore project integrating a wind turbine with a full-scale semi-submersible floating ...