The Vineyard Wind announced the first electricity contribution to the grid from one of its turbines located 15 miles off the coast of Massachusetts. Avangrid CEO Pedro Azagra said this marks a ...

Humanity has been harvesting energy from the wind for centuries. The practice goes back at least to 8th century Persia where the first known historical records of windmills came, but likely extends ...

The federal government stopped Vineyard Wind 1 construction, citing national security. Here's what we know - and don't know - ...

Wind power has surged across Europe, sparking concern that billions are being wasted due to "insufficient" grid investment.

AMES, Iowa – When the power grid goes down, there’s a step-by-step recovery process – a “blackstart” that up to now has depended on power from gas or hydro turbines spinning away inside a power plant.

Delaying new power generation could affect New England’s economy, industrial growth and power reliability, ISO New England ...

Offshore wind has a problem: electrical transmission. Wind developers can fairly easily run high voltage cables from their offshore projects to land, but once that power comes ashore it encounters an ...

Think of a wind turbine and you’ll probably picture a tall vertical pole with three long blades spinning at the top. These traditional turbines were modeled after 17th-century Dutch windmills, but for ...

Use of green energy hit an all-time high last year: Renewables produced nearly a third of the electricity used around the globe, according to a new report out from the global policy network REN-21.

When electric grids go down, there's no way to restore them -- 'blackstart' them -- with power from wind turbines. A team is now working to develop strategies and controllers that would reenergize ...