Floating wind turbines are crucial to the future of offshore wind, and to bring energy costs down to a competitive level, they require radically different thinking. French company Eolink is starting ...

Norway's World Wide Wind has a radically different take on offshore wind power. These floating, vertical-axis wind turbines feature two sets of blades, tuned to contra-rotate – and they promise more ...

The makers of wind turbines have, for many decades now, labored to harness one of the mightiest forces in nature. They’ve moved from onshore to offshore sites, building ever larger rotors with huge ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Engineers have been tinkering with different offshore wind ...

The Aikido One platform, a 1:4 scale pilot floating wind platform, deployed in 2024. Photo: Aikido Floating offshore wind tech company Aikido is working with Norway’s Marin Energy Test Centre ...

Matthew Lackner receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it ...

The first floating wind farm in the U.S. and state actions to bolster supply and demand will help to reduce risks and attract investors to larger projects. July 11 - In May, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean ...

CLIMATEWIRE | The Biden administration announced initiatives yesterday to prepare states for floating offshore wind — a young but fast-emerging type of power that some say could revolutionize ...

Twenty-five kilometres offshore from the site of the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster a floating wind power project is presenting Japan with an opportunity to take its energy sector in a new ...

OSLO, May 19 (Reuters) - Norway has launched the first part of its long-awaited inaugural floating wind tender, it said on Monday, offering subsidies to the winners despite the challenges faced by the ...