A new wind turbine, the Ventum Dynamics VX175, features a unique lantern-like shroud around the rotor. This design draws on ...

Rotor blade designer We4Ce (Almelo, Netherlands) has announced the design of 10 rotor blade sets for Dutch wind turbine startup TouchWind B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands) for testing on its floating TW6 ...

Small Wind Turbines Could Save the Wind Sector Renewable energy is accounting for an increasing amount of the global energy mix, and wind power is leading the way. EU statistical office Eurostat ...

Massive wind turbines can seem deceptively small from a distance Image: picture-alliance/dpa/S. Sauer Around 90,000 blades, and counting "We currently have around 30,000 land-based wind turbines.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Global Wind Turbine Rotor Blade Market size is expected to reach over USD 37.62 Billion by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 9.3% during the forecast ...

Offshore wind turbines are becoming ever larger, and the transportation, installation, disassembly and disposal of their gigantic rotor blades are presenting operators with new challenges ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) in Bremerhaven has developed a turbine whose blades have a “bend-twist coupling” (BTC) that helps them react to changes in wind intensity in a ...

The Stormblade turbine aims to overcome these problems. ’It uses some of the principles of the shrouded system, channelling airflow into the turbine and on to the blades,’ Jovanovic said. ’It also ...

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. "Heat Used To Identify Weaknesses In Wind Turbine Rotor Blades." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 23 March 2009. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 03 / 090323093131.htm>.

The majority of current US windturbines produce between 1 and 2 MW of power, using blades around 165ft (50 m) long, and even the largest commercially-available modelsare only capable of 8 MW ...

Rotor blades from hundreds of wind turbines in Scotland could end up being buried in the ground at the end of their working life, according to a report from council officials.