When multi-gigawatt offshore wind projects are more than halfway built, a sudden stop order becomes an engineering problem before it becomes anything else. Ships go off hire, crews of specialization ...

After two decades of steady growth, wind blew past hydroelectric as the leading source of renewable energy in the United States in 2019. Last year, wind turbines generated a total of 338 billion ...

The 10th annual Collegiate Wind Competition was held in Boulder May 17-19. In the final event of the competition, 13 teams tested their prototype wind turbines and presented their work to panels of ...

Wind power technology in 2025 pushed well beyond incremental upgrades, with engineers rethinking how, where, and even what wind turbines look like. From floating giants the size of city blocks and ...

Rainier Square Tower, under construction in Seattle, is one of the buildings considered for the development of a performance-based wind design manual for tall buildings. Photo Courtesy of ...

In a long-awaited, historic step toward “real" not cookbook wind engineering, the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers recently issued a recommended alternative ...

Airloom is pitching low-profile wind turbines as a way to ease the growing energy strain caused by AI-driven data centers.

AMHERST, N.Y. — We have seen how wild weather can cause major damage across our area. The University at Buffalo will continue to study how high winds can affect buildings thanks to a new government ...

With extreme weather events becoming all too common, and a growing list of PV projects that have been damaged or destroyed by strong winds, ensuring that mounting structures are able to withstand the ...