Tom Mara is a wind engineer and Associate Principal with CPP Wind Engineering, Inc. He is a registered Professional Engineer ...

Drawbacks include complaints from locals that wind turbines are ugly and noisy. The slowly rotating blades can also kill birds and bats, but not nearly as many as cars, power lines, and high-rise ...

For many environmental enthusiasts, horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs) — the kind that look like windmills slowly spinning in the distance — are a pretty familiar sight. Unfortunately ...

Then, the electricity can be funneled through power lines for distribution. With turbines both on land and in the sea, wind energy is now the largest source of renewable energy in the United States.

As temperatures rise, political pressure has grown to move the world toward clean energy. GE’s Haliade-X offshore wind turbine, the first of which was raised this year, offers one piece of the ...

installation of wind turbines, power collection lines, wind measurement towers, a substation, and access roads. The project will feature 138 turbines provided by Envision Energy from China.