What if, instead of wastefully subsidizing all those eyesore wind turbines that really have proven to be not-so-great at providing power so much as they are a highly effective means of killing flocks ...

Wind power has become one of the pillars of the global energy transition, yet the basic silhouette of the modern turbine, a tall tower with three sweeping blades, has barely changed in decades. Now a ...

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 ...

On a recent winter day on a wind farm in Germany, workers scaled 544-foot-tall wind turbines and started adding fringe-like attachments to the massive blades. The design, inspired by the shape of owl ...

Readying California for offshore wind power will require a perfect concert of major port upgrades, hundreds of miles of new ...

With three wind turbines in the distance behind him, 82-year-old West Texas rancher George Neill surveys part of his 1,700-acre spread near San Angelo on a day when wind gusts climbed toward 40 mph.

A bill passed by the Texas Senate asks solar and wind plants to pay for additional power generation for when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow. Renewables have kept the AC running on hot ...