Wind Power Engineering tapped the WIND e-20 as “Wind Turbine of the Month” in its October issue. Aside from the technical specs, reporter Paul Dvorak teased out some juicy details, leading off with the observation, “this turbine design and its developer break all the rules — in a good way.”
The wind turbine company UGE first crossed our radar in 2012, when it teamed with GE to launch Sanya Skypump, the world’s first EV charging station powered directly by a wind turbine. Now the company is back with the launch of VisionAIR3, a ramped up, high efficiency version of the … [continued]
Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT) continue to get attention, press and R&D funding. Antagonists of mainstream wind generation continually point at them as if they were a superior technology. People perpetually re-invent them and believe that they have found something new and exciting. However, they are undeserving of any significant … [continued]
A Japanese firm named Modec has been developing and conducting small-scale testing of a new generator which utilizes both wind and wave energy. It is an offshore turbine which was dreamed up by Takuju Nakamura that has a vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) on top as well as a vertical-axis wave-powered … [continued]
A U.S. Air Force veteran from Arkansas has won a chunk of funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a new venture called Agri Wind Turbines, to develop a low-cost wind turbine that uses compressed air funneled from existing or new silos. The idea is to provide small- and … [continued]
SeaTwirl has created a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) that is both direct-drive and stores energy using seawater. It also uses water as a bearing, which has the advantage of low friction. The generator is of the permanent magnet type. This means that it partially utilizes magnets (magnetic materials … [continued]
A company introduced a customizable VAWT called the WindSail.
Palo Alto startup D.C. Revolutions is looking for crowdfunding on Indie Gogo for its vertical-axis wind turbine concept.
Wind power is growing fast, as anyone here on CleanTechnica should know by now. It is exploding as its costs fall and the high costs of other power sources (i.e. coal and nuclear) are made more apparent and rise. And, this is all expected to continue in the years to come because wind power technologies are quickly being developed and improved, their fuel (wind) is expected to remain free indefinitely, and the costs of coal and nuclear are expected to continue rising.
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has found that while traditional offshore wind turbines using a horizontal axis design are a good energy source in many locations now, vertical axis offshore turbines may be even better.
