A new, more efficient natural gas turbine technology has added one more reason for energy companies to move away from coal-fired power plants. CCGT plants are more efficient than coal plants because ...

Composite materials are ideal for producing wind turbine blades because of their strength, light weight, and ability to be tailored to provide the precise mechanical properties needed for any blade ...

Consider the inside of a typical wind turbine nacelle. It will contain a gearbox, electrical controls, a generator, hub mounting, blade controls, and several other major systems. In the case of ...

The virtual world will help make the real world a better place Developed by our Executive Committee, the DS vision enables our customers, our users, to imagine and project themselves into the future ...

The term “hydroelectric power” often brings to mind immense operations driven by purpose-built infrastructure such as dam systems and large turbines with traditionally metallic, propeller-based ...

Several major wind-power companies are testing a departure from the industry’s standard three-bladed turbine design by dropping one of the three blades and spinning the rotor 180 degrees to face ...