A short video from the U.S. Department of Energy illustrates how the 130' long blades of wind turbines generate power. Trying to build a better planet. Read more from this special report. Shaped a little like the wings of an airplane, the blades only ...

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Wind power technology in 2025 pushed well beyond incremental upgrades, with engineers rethinking how, where, and even what wind turbines look like. From floating giants the size of city blocks and record-breaking offshore machines to AI-driven micro turbines and radical “walls of turbines,

This is a developing story. The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Monday a pause on leases for all large-scale offshore wind projects under construction. The order affects at least two projects off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard that were near completion — Vineyard Wind 1 and Revolution Wind.

Construction on Revolution Wind began in 2023, and the project was expected to be fully operational next year. Orsted says it is evaluating the financial impact of stopping construction and is considering legal proceedings. Rhode Island is already home to one offshore wind farm, the five-turbine Block Island Wind Farm. Revolution Wind was expected to be Rhode Island and Connecticut's first ...

Less than two weeks after the Trump administration issued a stop-work order for Revolution Wind — a large and nearly complete wind farm off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island — the company behind the project, is pushing back. Ørsted, one of ...