Category Wind turbines

This Helical Robotics robot is controlled wirelessly and climbs wind turbines to inspect them. Curved magnets hold it on to the turbine. It can climb onto the blades too. Wheee.

The London Array offshore wind farm now has 175 wind turbines producing 630 MW power and is completely hooked up to the grid. Full capacity has now been reached at the 630MW first phase of the world’s largest offshore wind…

A working prototype of the Electrostatic Windenergy Convertor (EWICON) now exists, creating wind power with no moving mechanical parts. The technology, developed by the Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science faculty at Delft, uses the movement of electrically charged water…

Wind power is now supplanting nuclear in China, as well as in the US. Some 18,000 MW of windpower was added to the grid over the last two years, nearly seven times as much as nuclear. It estimates that there…

Prices for wind power sometimes drop to zero during times of light demand due to laws that require utilities buy it even when they don’t need it, which is certainly screwy and counter-intuitive. The fear that tax credits would expire…