Swedish wind turbine maker SeaTwirl announced today that it's gotten its first commercial vertical-axis floating wind turbine order.

Vertical axis wind turbines, the modern day answer to windmills, can be retrofitted to power your home or business. This alternative energy source uses a renewable resource, wind, to help keep ...

From sculptural “wind trees” to massive offshore walls of rotors. Six strange turbine designs pushing the boundaries of ...

The world's first offshore wind farm was installed in 1991 off the coast of Vindeby on the Danish island of Lolland. It included 11 turbines with a capacity of 450 kW each, and the project cost 10 ...

Oxford Brookes University researchers think wind turbines should be vertical; the Interior Department approves a solar farm in the California desert.

Freen OÜ is transforming urban and rural landscapes with its cutting-edge Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT) Our mission is to democratize access to wind energy and make it viable in places where ...

EPFL researchers used a genetic algorithm to identify optimal pitch profiles for vertical-axis wind turbines, significantly increasing efficiency and reducing vibrations.

These scale model wind turbines use fixed-pitch blades to evaluate a new vertical axis wind turbine design. Vertical axis wind turbines are easier to install than traditional horizontal axis wind ...

A new vertical wind turbine design by SeaTwirl creates a sort of buoy effect so that the turbines can be placed where it couldn't have before.

Small vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) possess the ability to effectively operate in the presence of high turbulent flow, which makes them ideal energy harvesting devices in urban and suburban ...

A concept rendering of offshore vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). What makes renewable energy so exciting is the immense economic potential of groundbreaking technology advancements. A recent ...

But vertical axis wind turbines can. Though they have been around for many years, they may have finally found their niche.