Wind turbines were built to make electricity, but engineers now say their towers could do something far more unexpected. A ...

A world record-breaking floating offshore wind turbine with a capacity of 16 megawatts has been installed in China, creating an outstanding record in clean energy and offshore wind turbine technology.

Ocergy is enjoying the chance to show that its OCG-Wind technology is faster to build, as floating turbine readies for ...

The University of Maine is contributing to the global effort to improve floating machines to harness wind over deeper offshore waters. Researchers envision turbine platforms floating in the ocean ...

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 ...

A new forum has been established to support the development of floating offshore wind (FLOW) in Wales and the South West of ...

A floating wind turbine platform developed by Mingyang Group is now sited at a Chinese offshore wind farm. OceanX, at present the world’s largest single capacity technology of its type, is supporting ...

A wildly innovative turbine that could halve the cost of offshore wind is set to go into testing in Norway. The 19-m (62-ft), 30-kW, contra-rotating vertical-axis turbine is a prototype of a design ...

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.

For the first time, floating offshore wind has been brought online as a new renewable generation technology in Spain. The country’s first floating offshore wind turbine is now connected to the grid ...

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Irish company Gazelle has announced the third generation of a fascinating new floating wind platform design it says can stabiliize massive offshore turbines up to 20 MW in capacity, while radically ...