The potential financial benefits from Industry 4.0 are apparent to plant owners in almost all sectors. The wind power industry is no exception, and existing vendors such as GE (Predix/Digital Windfarm ...

Wind turbines last longer than ever thanks to continuous engineering improvements. Gearboxes in wind turbines, more than those in any other application, tend to fail prematurely. In fact, at some wind ...

Small wind turbines don’t use the same technology found on the megawatt-scale behemoths populating wind farms. Here are a few of the main differences. • As one might expect, the internals of a small ...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration has forecasted the price of natural gas to stay between $4.48 and $5.34 per MMBtu over the next two years. Power generators are searching for the best ...

The increasing demand for energy as well as the rapid rise of greenhouse gas emissions due to the use of fossil fuels have made us invent new ways to generate renewable energy. The production of ...

All of the cute little wind-power devices we’ve seen rely on turbines. One inventor finally said, “Screw the turbine,” and built a wind-powered generator that behaves rather like a badly designed ...

G.E.’s giant machine, which can light up a small town, is stoking a renewable-energy arms race. General Electric’s Haliade-X wind turbine at Rotterdam Harbor in the Netherlands. Credit...Ilvy ...