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

A drumbeat of floating offshore wind–related developments this year suggests the pipeline for the long-nascent wind technology sub-sector may be finally beginning to grow. While floating wind’s ...

A world record-breaking floating offshore wind turbine with a capacity of 16 megawatts has been installed in China, creating an outstanding record in clean energy and offshore wind turbine technology.

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

Technip Energies is set to put to the test a floating wind technology capable of halving hull weights. The engineering ...

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 ...

Floating wind turbines are crucial to the future of offshore wind, and to bring energy costs down to a competitive level, they require radically different thinking. French company Eolink is starting ...

Floating offshore platforms offer an alternative, but the engineering challenges here are enormous. A typical 14-megawatt offshore turbine, for example, might place a 500-ton nacelle on top of a ...

As wind farm technology improves, offshore wind farming is becoming a more viable option for power production. More companies are starting to make a splash in this futuristic space. Investors ...

For nearly 30 years, the world has been collecting renewable wind energy by installing giant wind turbines off shorelines, anchored to the sea floor. That surplus of wind power helps turn wind ...