While renewable energy sources certainly are more eco-friendly than fossil fuels, most of them only produce electricity in one way, such as using sunlight … which isn't always available. A new system, ...

A group of researchers from Norway's Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) and Sweden's Uppsala University has outlined a new strategy to retrofit wind power plants in hybrid wind-solar facilities.

The shift occurred as the cost of wind power and other renewable energy is rapidly declining and coal is being pushed out by natural gas. By Minho Kim Wind turbines generated more electricity than ...

Wind Engineering, Vol. 45, No. 2 (April 2021), pp. 442-456 (15 pages) As the wind power penetration level has started increasing in the grid, it has become essential to employ wind turbine with ...

After spinning for under two years, a wind farm can offset the carbon emissions generated across its entire 30-year lifespan, when compared to thermal power plants. After spinning for under two years, ...

SAPPORO, Japan — Ocean winds whip across the beaches, hillsides and sprawling plains of Hokkaido. There’s enough wind energy here for Japan’s northernmost island to power itself and export clean ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Most of the power to replace the last of Xcel Energy’s coal plants in Colorado, including a chronically troubled facility, would come from renewable energy ...