Taller Wind Turbines To Get TLC From 3D Printing
GE is ready to rock the world of onshore wind turbines with 3D printing for a new concrete base.
wind turbine towers
Wind Turbine Tower Market Set To Decline By 2020
The global wind turbine tower market is set to decline over the next several years, dropping several billion dollars due to falling costs, decreasing capacity expansion, and increased tower height. These are the findings from a new report from research and consulting firm GlobalData, which investigates the global wind turbine … [continued]
Warren Buffett Gives A Gigantic Concrete Wind Turbine Tower To Iowa
A new concrete wind tower will power more jobs in Iowa, deploying in-state producers including a Siemens wind turbine factory. Keystone XL who?
Is This The Future Of Wind Turbines? (CleanTechnica Exclusive Interview)
There’s a lot of fluff out there regarding “futuristic” wind turbines. (See here, here, here, here, and here for example.) The thing is, when it comes to financial competitiveness, nothing seems to come close to the three-blade, horizontal-axis wind turbine design that dominates the market. That said, the design of … [continued]
Grab A Sneak Peek At GE’s New “Space Frame” Wind Turbine Tower (CleanTechnica Exclusive)
GE is launching a new wind turbine tower next week and CleanTechnica just got a chance to go inside and see what makes it tick, so we’re going to share that with you right now before practically anybody else gets wind of it. The new tower, which GE has dubbed … [continued]
Photo Essay Of Wind Tower
Our friends over at Clean Energy Canada recently put together a cool photo essay about the building of a wind tower. Very cool. I won’t steal their thunder, but here are a few of my favorites photos from that (all photos by Dax Melmer on behalf of Clean Energy Canada): The … [continued]
Tower-Crawling Crane Cuts Cost of Wind Power
Just a few days ago the Department of Energy announced a ten-year plan to make wind and solar power as cheap as fossil fuels, and at least one top player in the future energy field is off to a roaring start. That would be GE. The company has just completed … [continued]
Samsung Signs $6.6 Billion Solar and Wind Power Deal with Ontario, Canada
That takes my breath away. In one of the biggest renewable energy deals in the history of the world, a Korean consortium led by Samsung* has agreed to build 2,500 megawatts of wind and solar power capacity in the Canadian province of Ontario. Samsung C&T and the Ontario government signed … [continued]
