You won’t be surprised to read that Iowa is big farm country. If you’ve ever driven through the state, you doubtless noticed the vast expanses of land given over to agriculture. By some estimates, ...

AMES, Iowa – Sri Sritharan called up a digital map of the United States and pointed to a dark blue band running through the middle of the country. That’s wind country. The blue band runs east from the ...

Wood might seem like a construction material from a bygone era, but Swedish start-up Modvion is putting it to a very modern use. The Gothenburg-based company is using engineered wood to build wind ...

AMES, Iowa – The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Iowa State engineers $1 million to study how high-strength concrete can be used to build taller wind turbine towers. Sritharan said concrete ...

Modern-day wind turbines are constructed using mostly concrete and steel, topped by the fiberglass composite blades mounted to the nacelle that houses the gearbox and generator, along with much of the ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

The share of wind power in total electric power generation is expected to increase, and with that comes a requirement for this carbon-free source to be more reliable. The most important component of a ...

But for all the difficulties, I’m excited by the prospect of the wind turbines supporting the local energy needs. I can’t wait for the day when I’m on my balcony, solar panels at my side, sipping a ...

This has led to the introduction of wooden wind blades as long as 80 metres and wooden towers. The gearless drive technology ...

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 ...