BEIJING -- China has achieved a major breakthrough in clean energy technology with the rollout of the world's most powerful ...

China has launched the world's first 16-MW floating wind turbine designed to power offshore oil production, supplying clean ...

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 "Windcatcher" design concept, a wall of small wind turbines floating in the sea, from Norwegian company Wind Catching Systems (WCS), has officially received approval from a leading global ...

A floating wind turbine platform developed by Mingyang Group is now sited at a Chinese offshore wind farm. OceanX, at present the world’s largest single capacity technology of its type, is supporting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: China Huaneng Group/Handout via Xinhua Chinese engineers have created a prototype floating wind turbine that they say has ...

Growing concern from government across the globe regarding renewable power source is anticipated to boost floating wind turbine market growth. According to a report published by Allied Market Research ...

A wildly innovative turbine that could halve the cost of offshore wind is set to go into testing in Norway. The 19-m (62-ft), 30-kW, contra-rotating vertical-axis turbine is a prototype of a design ...

Wind turbines were built to make electricity, but engineers now say their towers could do something far more unexpected. A ...

Japan is an island nation with plenty of wind and a whole lot of ocean, but building wind turbines out at sea has never been ...

China claims to have launched the biggest and most powerful floating offshore wind turbine. The Chinese turbine, which is independently developed and made in China, has a rotor diameter of 260 meters.

The Trump Administration has halted the University of Maine's $12.5 million research grant to build a floating offshore wind energy turbine platform just as a new 375-ton concrete prototype hull was ...