While Norway is busy erecting Europe's largest onshore wind farm, the British government has recently announced plans for what will be the biggest offshore wind farm in the entire world. Dubbed as the Hornsea Project Two, the initiative will involve the construction of as many as 300 wind turbines along the coast of England. Once…
Thanks to a particularly windy weekend, South Australia recently saw nearly 83-percent of its total electricity coming solely from eco-friendly wind energy. Although the harsh weather conditions led to power outages in some of the places, its advantages far outweigh the temporary inconvenience. According to officials, wind turbines installed in the area captured much of…
The demand for eco-friendly wind power has increased drastically in recent years, with countries around the world looking for new ways of improving this technology while also reducing costs. At present, transporting wind turbines is quite an expensive affair, which eventually adds to the costs of wind energy. In an attempt to lower such expenses, Denmark-based…
Scientists in the US are building a colossal wind turbine that is going to be nearly 100 feet (around 30 meters) taller than the Empire State Building. Touted as the world’s largest wind turbine, the gigantic structure will feature blades measuring up to 656.2 feet (about 200 meters) in length. Once constructed, it would produce…
One of the front runners of the ongoing clean energy race, Norway has recently announced plans for a massive inter-connected network of wind farms, as part of the new Fosen Vind project. According to the developers, the facility will be the largest of its kind in all of Europe, with a combined production capacity of…
Remember ‘Wind Tree’, a miniature tree-shaped wind turbine designed by French company New Wind? A recent study, by scientists at Ohio State University’s Laboratory of Sound and Vibration Research, is somewhat along the same line, focusing on the development of a new technology that could convert tree movements into clean, usable energy. Based on piezoelectricity, the…
Over the years, we have come across quite a few daring architectural concepts, unique for their unorthodox yet incredibly innovative quality, which sadly have never seen the light of day. The latest proposal, by US-based design and architecture firm FIXd, seems to fall into this category. Too ambitious to be actually practical, the new Mo…
Known for its breathtaking natural beauty, Iceland, a Nordic country with a population of only 329,100 people and an area of around 103,000 sq km, currently runs almost entirely on renewable energy, coming chiefly from its vast geothermal resources. Its unique location between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Oceans also makes this tiny European…
When it comes to renewable energy, the United Kingdom seems to be winning the race. Currently, wind turbines and solar panels provide more than 25-percent of the nation’s total electricity, making it one of the few places in the world where renewables are more widely used than coal. What is more, it will soon be…
For the first time in the UK’s history, renewable energy has contributed to a record 25-percent of the total electricity generation, thus overtaking coal to take the second place behind gas-fired power production. According to the Energy Statistics, published on September 24 by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the report pertains to the…