A large wind turbine caused traffic delays and one injury after falling off the back of a truck in Washington County, ...

A truck was pulling a wind turbine blade when the object struck a guardrail, blocking traffic along I-70 in Maryland.

JUDITH GAP - The winds that spin the blade tips at 217 mph at Invenergy's 90-turbine wind park also deliver lightning, which can shatter a windmill's 122-foot arms like a truck ramming a fence post.

The lightning bolts go upward from the turbine blade tip into the heart of the cloud rather than toward the ground. But the electrical charge delivered to the turbine engine can cause significant ...

A Limerick-based green energy company has applied to Clare County Council for planning permission to build three wind turbines in the Kilrush area. Moanmore Lower Green Energy is based in Adare ...

Wind turbines in the North Sea face extreme weather conditions that cause erosion to the turbine blades. The PROWESS research, led by TNO, shows that a substantial part of the damage to offshore wind ...

Surprising research results For a year, TNO’s senior consultant Wind Energy Harald van der Mijle Meijer and Wind Energy researcher Marco Caboni conducted detailed precipitation measurements in the ...

A Vineyard Wind turbine located south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, already compromised by a blade failure last summer, was struck by lightning last Thursday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The ...

A New Bedford commercial fisherman captured the Vineyard Wind turbine blade that was damaged on July 13. Photo courtesy of The New Bedford Light / Anthony Seiger Vineyard Wind turbine located south of ...

On Feb. 27, lightning reportedly struck the same Vineyard Wind turbine that had a blade failure in July 2024. Here's what we know.

First, an offshore wind turbine lost a blade. Then it was struck by lightning. Officials with Vineyard Wind, a 62-turbine project near Massachusetts, said they had discovered damage consistent ...