These challenges are primarily rooted in the aerodynamic inefficiencies of turbine blades designed for such environments. Historically, the development of airfoils for wind turbines has focused on ...

Vineyard Wind 1 is once again turning wind into electricity, even as its developer works to meet a federal mandate requiring the removal of turbine blades made at the Canadian factory where the ...

The world's longest wooden wind turbine blades built so far are due to begin trial deployments next year. Senvion has linked with Germany’s Voodin Blade Technology to trial the latter's blades on the ...

A Nordex wind turbine blade has broken at a 923MW Acciona wind farm that the Spanish developer is building in Australia. The incident occurred late last month at the MacIntyre wind farm in the state ...

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A turbine blade has broken at Australia’s largest wind farm, prompting an investigation by officials. The incident at the southwestern Queensland-based MacIntyre wind farm occurred in late December, ...

Wind farm operators in Wyoming and across the nation can now bury decommissioned wind turbine blades and other materials at surface coal mines in the state — a solution of mutual benefit to both ...

The top executives of a company accused of abandoning junked wind-turbine blades across Iowa say they shouldn’t be held liable for their companies’ actions. Last fall, the State of Iowa sued ...

These blades do need to be replaced and some 11,000 tons of wind turbine blades are due to be decommissioned in Ireland by the end of this year. Unfortunately, the glass fibre materials used in ...

A photo of a generator that was used to temporarily power a wind turbine’s emergency ... show a permanent power source to propel the turbine’s blades. The picture - taken at Black Lough ...