Gigantic, floating wind turbines as tall as New York’s famed 30 Rockefeller Plaza could unlock more than double the current US energy demand.

Floating turbines are the only viable option for US states to capture large-scale offshore wind energy in deep waters Associated Press Published May 14, 2024 10:24am EDT ...

The Department of Energy has calculated that floating wind power could generate as much as 2.8 terawatts of energy in the U.S., more than double the country’s electricity consumption.

China has unveiled the world’s most powerful direct-drive floating wind turbine, marking a major leap in renewable energy innovation. The 17-megawatt unit was developed by state-owned enterprises ...

The world’s most powerful direct-drive floating offshore wind turbine, rated at 17 MW and co-developed by Dongfang Electric ...

Last year, Three Gorges Energy installed a MingYang Smart Energy MySE 16-260 – the largest offshore wind turbine in the world – onto a 500-ft (152-m) tower into its wind farm.

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 ...

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.

Swedish wind turbine maker SeaTwirl got the go-ahead to test its 1 megawatt (MW) S2X vertical-axis floating offshore prototype in Norway.. Vertical-axis floating wind turbine pilot. In March 2022 ...

According to industry body Wind Europe, 80 percent of the offshore wind resource in European waters is in places too deep to make today’s fixed-bottom turbines an economically sensible choice.

Installed in 2017, the turbines power about 36,000 homes a year. Wind farms have been erected on land and at sea for decades, but Hywind Scotland, operated by Norwegian oil giant Equinor ASA, is ...

X1 Wind’s floating turbine design was first envisioned in 2012 by company cofounder Carlos Casanovas while a student at MIT. Since then, Casanova’s team has worked to bring the concept into ...