Last May, inside a sprawling building in the Netherlands, a team from a California-based startup stood next to a deep indoor pool and waited for a wave machine to be turned on, simulating the open ...

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Portugal’s WindFloat Atlantic – the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm – is now four years old and still breaking its own power output records. The 25 megawatt (MW) WindFloat ...

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 ...

Explore the reasons behind the massive scale of floating wind turbines, including China's production of the largest wind ...

Mingyang Smart Energy, maker of the world's largest wind turbines, has just unveiled its latest gigantic floating offshore wind turbine creation. The OceanX is a two-headed, deep-water behemoth ...

The prospect of offshore floating wind turbines was at the center of a series of studies at the Offshore Technology Conference that examined the future of the new technology. The primary concern was ...

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 ...

Old, discarded wind turbine blades don't biodegrade. They do, however, float if sealed. Finnish startup Reverlast is capitalizing on that fact, by taking end-of-use blades and converting them into ...