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Wind power technology in 2025 pushed well beyond incremental upgrades, with engineers rethinking how, where, and even what wind turbines look like. From floating giants the size of city blocks and record-breaking offshore machines to AI-driven micro turbines and radical “walls of turbines,
Leaders in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island are racing to save offshore wind farms targeted by the president.
Like any industry, wind energy has had its good and bad years. But 2025 may be one of the worst: a toxic stew of major policy reversals, corporate upheaval and sub‑par generation in key markets.
Southeast Asia is embracing the embattled offshore wind industry as it reels from U.S. President Donald Trump’s rejection of renewable energy
The Public Utilities Commission wants to bring 1.2 gigawatts of wind power online to serve customers in Maine and New England.
US wind installations are set to jump in 2025, but tariffs, permitting delays, and surging power demand could shape what comes next.
Wind turbines usually jut up from the ground like giant pinwheels. Now a company in China is exploring a new form factor: flying wind turbines. These zeppelin-like aircraft float high in the sky, tethered to the ground only by cables as they generate a ...
Damaging winds blasted Northwest Montana early Wednesday morning, cutting power to thousands of homes from Libby to the Flathead Valley.
The claim cherry-picks the words of a geoscientist writing about putting turbines where the wind blows. Multiple studies show that within a couple of years, windmills produce more energy than it takes to make them, although one study found it takes about ...
Wind turbines keep getting bigger: Each blade can be longer than a football field, and one offshore turbine recently installed in China is as tall as a 50-story building. Making the base to hold up a standard turbine can take 40 truckloads of concrete.
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont blasted the Trump administration’s order halting work on offshore wind projects, saying it will undermine attempts to lower power bills.