WindTronics is one of many wind companies trying to crack into the clean energy industry. Can it make wind power affordable and revitalize manufacturing at the same time? Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

The WTTC opened in 2011 and has since evolved to test longer wind turbine blades (Credit: DOE) When WTTC opened in 2011, it tested land-based wind turbine blades that typically spanned around 50 ...

MidAmerican's radar that will turn on wind turbine warning lights when a plane is detected. Residents of four Iowa counties may notice there are no red lights now blinking in the night sky.

A new system using hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing of embedded-control software releases keeps turbines up on the farm For its wind turbine control systems, Siemens’ engineers faced the challenge ...

Megger has enhanced its KC series of test leads used with wind turbines. KC-C test leads are lightweight, making them safe for use at heights, and are designed to work with Megger’s DLRO2 low ...

Moog Industrial Group, a division of Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B) announced today that the company has been awarded a contract to supply a test system to Narec (National Renewable Energy Centre) ...

Renewable energy at sea isn't limited to offshore wind turbines. There are also devices that go under the water, harnessing wave and tidal power. Reporter Emma Jacobs visited Scotland's Orkney Islands ...

Floating wind turbines are crucial to the future of offshore wind, and to bring energy costs down to a competitive level, they require radically different thinking. French company Eolink is starting ...

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AMES, Iowa – Grant Schmitz, eyes inches from a 6.5-by-12-foot panel of ultra-high performance concrete, studied the smooth surface for tiny cracks. He and other research engineers carefully marked ...

Discover how to build a simple DIY wind turbine using basic household items like an aluminum can, copper wire, and cardboard.