A new (rather genius) prototype would allow wind turbines to be floating and installed much farther out to sea, keeping down NIMBYism while giving us a new source of wind power. Meet the WindFlip.

Global floating wind capacity will have grown from less than 200 MW at the end of 2022 to around 61 GW of grid connected capacity by 2035.

Floating wind farms could soon be powering thousands of European homes after a prototype seaborne turbine sailed through technological trials off the coast of Agucadoura, Portugal. The 54-meter ...

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 ...

The first U.S. floating wind installation, a test site, is planned in the Gulf of Maine. The 11-megawatt demonstration project is scheduled to start operating in 2024.

Offshore vessel operator and installation services firm Bourbon Subsea Services has recently completed the installation of the 3.6 MW TetraSpar floating wind turbine prototype at a test site in ...

We haven't seen a floating offshore wind turbine like this before. Touchwind claims its innovative single-blade turbines will solve several problems to drive down cost and downtime, using a single ...

US approves game-changer tech that cuts wind turbine installation cost by 50%. Story by Abhishek Bhardwaj ... offshore and floating wind turbines while allowing larger wind turbines to be installed.

In this Sept. 20, 2013, photo, a lobster boat passes the country's first floating wind turbine off the coast of Castine, Maine. The University of Maine's 9,000-pound prototype has been generating ...

ORONO — The University of Maine unveiled the floating platform of VolturnUS, a one-of-a-kind offshore wind turbine that officials hope will shape the future of energy in Maine, during a ceremony ...

Wind Catching Systems has received an important tick of approval for its enormous 40-megawatt Windcatcher offshore floating wind turbine array, as it prepares to build a full size demonstrator ...

At Hywind Scotland, the world’s only commercial floating wind farm today, each Siemens SWT-6.0-154 turbine has a towerhead mass of around 350 tons and sits on a foundation with roughly 6,060 ...