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 ...

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 ...

Energy prices can be a source of concern for homeowners, but if you want to enhance it with the power of wind, there are some ...

Maybe you’ve heard of a solar updraft tower, a tall, hollow cylindrical tower where sunlight heats the air at the base of the tower and creates a chimney effect, causing air to rapidly shoot upward ...

A funny thing happened on the way to President Donald Trump’s mission to obliterate renewable energy. Solar and wind energy use is surging, especially globally, but even in the United States.

Less than 24 hours after Vineyard Wind secured a win in federal court that lifted the project suspension, it sailed its 62nd and final turbine tower out of the Port of New Bedford on a brutally cold ...

Revolution Wind was exactly that. A revolutionary $6.2 billion offshore wind park, intended to supply 704 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut within ...

Federal government invites input from Australia's manufacturing supply chains to help shape the future of local wind and transmission tower manufacturing.

"I spotted those windmills near Interstate 90 the other afternoon, and my mind flooded with that jumble of disjointed ...