Building towers for wind turbines 10 times faster and up to twice as tall as today’s conventional technology is something for prime-time news. The new technology can help speed up the deployment of ...

Renewable energy giant Siemens Gamesa today announced the launch of GreenerTower, a sustainable steel tower that reduces a wind turbine’s carbon footprint by 20%. Wind turbine towers are made up of 80 ...

You won’t be surprised to read that Iowa is big farm country. If you’ve ever driven through the state, you doubtless noticed the vast expanses of land given over to agriculture. By some estimates, ...

AMES, Iowa – Hydraulic equipment in two civil engineering labs recently pushed and pulled at test sections of a new kind of wind turbine tower, simulating the heavy, twisting loads that towers have to ...

So onshore wind farms can run taller towers, with longer blades, driving bigger turbines and producing more energy. Spiral welding is a well-established technology when it comes to making pipelines, ...

AMES, Iowa – The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Iowa State engineers $1 million to study how high-strength concrete can be used to build taller wind turbine towers. Sritharan said concrete ...

Wood might seem like a construction material from a bygone era, but Swedish start-up Modvion is putting it to a very modern use. The Gothenburg-based company is using engineered wood to build wind ...

Swedish startup Modvion is building the world’s tallest wooden wind turbine tower for an energy company in Sweden. The 105-meter (344-feet) wind turbine tower (including the blades) will be Modvion’s ...

BETHLEHEM - The Port of Albany's offshore wind tower turbine project has fallen months behind on its aggressive two-year construction schedule as it awaits needed permits from both the state and ...