The world's first offshore wind farm was installed in 1991 off the coast of Vindeby on the Danish island of Lolland. It ...

EPFL researchers developed optimal pitch profiles for vertical-axis wind turbines using a genetic learning algorithm. The new pitch profiles resulted in a 200% increase in turbine efficiency and a 77% ...

A concept rendering of offshore vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). What makes renewable energy so exciting is the immense economic potential of groundbreaking technology advancements. A recent ...

Compact (H-type) vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are not as familiar as their horizontal-axis, propeller-type cousins. The two have their origins in the windmills of the 12th century, and even ...

The type of wind turbine you’re used to seeing in stock photos of wind farms is called a horizontal axis wind turbine (or, HAWT). But there is another form of wind power, called a vertical axis wind ...

These scale model wind turbines use fixed-pitch blades to evaluate a new vertical axis wind turbine design. Vertical axis wind turbines are easier to install than traditional horizontal axis wind ...

13 February 2003 – A team of wind power experts are hoping that heightened interest in the renewable energy market will enable them to re-launch Eurowind Developments Limited, a company which promotes ...

Instead of a hulking rotor, New World Wind plants “trees” covered in tiny leaf-shaped micro-turbines. Each Aeroleaf is a vertical-axis unit designed to sip energy from turbulent, low, urban winds ...

South Australian engineers have successfully re-engineered and tested a vertical-axis wind turbine that can be used in urban environments. Australia ...

Wind Engineering, Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2017), pp. 74-90 (17 pages) Abstract The performance of a 5-m diameter Darrieus vertical axis wind turbine was predicted using both a double multiple ...