Installed under traditional wind turbines, they can double the output of electricity from a wind farm while still leaving ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

The type of wind turbine you’re used to seeing in stock photos of wind farms is called a horizontal axis wind turbine (or, HAWT). But there is another form of wind power, called a vertical axis ...

If you've got enough wind to spin a turbine, you have a source of clean energy. Taking advantage of it is easier and less ...

The generator in a vertical-axis turbine, on the other hand, can be placed anywhere on said vertical axis; in an offshore context, this means it can be at the waterline or below, adding weight where ...

Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are said to be more suited to sites where the wind direction is highly variable. VAWT-X also claims its design makes as little as a quarter of the noise of ...

EPFL researchers developed optimal pitch profiles for vertical-axis wind turbines using a genetic learning algorithm. The new pitch profiles resulted in a 200% increase in turbine efficiency and a ...