The Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) works with industry partners to increase the performance and reliability of next-generation wind technologies while lowering the cost of wind energy.
CNN — As climate change fuels more extreme weather events, and environmental disasters threaten wildlife and human health, more people are banking on clean, carbon-free energy to speed the
Because airborne wind energy systems are placed high in the air, where the strongest winds are, they can potentially capture energy at a fraction of the cost of a full-blown turbine, and they could be used to retrofit offshore oil
Do Alternative Designs for Wind Turbines Work? Challenges remain in reconfiguring the standard, propellerlike wind turbines for greater efficiency. By Umair Irfan & ClimateWire. Environment.
Now, electricity-generating wind turbines are proliferating around the globe, and China, the U.S., and Germany are the leading wind energy producers.
States like Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas and Illinois are leading the nation in wind energy, and coastal states such as Virginia, Massachusetts and New Jersey have invested heavily in offshore wind power, a promising avenue for growth.
Here are nine wildly different ways to harness energy from the air. If you picture a typical wind turbine, it''ll probably look like a giant, triple-bladed fan. Called a horizontal-axis wind
Offshore wind turbines are becoming enormous, with General Electric''s GE Haliade X featuring blades 360 feet long and generating 14 megawatts. The carbon footprint of such monsters could get as
The new design is smaller, cheaper, and more efficient than traditional wind turbines. The turbine uses a track with wings that are attached vertically. This design allows the turbine to generate more power with fewer parts. The new design is also less expensive to install and maintain.
Vortex Bladeless. If you don''t like wind turbines, a Spanish engineer has a new idea for renewable wind energy that creates no noise and uses no blades.