When a wind turbine malfunctions and the problem can’t be fixed remotely, General Electric technicians have traditionally had two options. If the malfunction occurred in an easily accessible part of ...

Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. Caroline Esquivel, who is 39, maintains wind turbines for RWE, a renewable energy firm that operates 26 wind farms across Texas.

Traditional way of monitoring health of wind turbine blades no longer cuts it, says industry leader, claiming new method can ...

A WIRED guide to careers of the future. First things first: If you hate heights, being a wind turbine technician is probably not the career for you. Sure, we’ve had people who aren’t comfortable with ...

Utility giant AEP has filed suit over turbine failures at a sprawling wind power project in Oklahoma. Only a few years after a $2 billion Oklahoma wind project started producing power, hundreds of ...

Teresa Weets and her daughter, Sally Freeman, look at a burned turbine June 11 while surveying damage on their farmland in Mechanicsville. Two turbines on their property caught fire after being stuck ...

Hydro Tasmania has successfully transported massive 25-metre wind turbine blades to King Island following a complex shipping operation from Devonport. The oversized cargo was delivered aboard the John ...

As swimmers enjoy the beach this summer, massive chunks of debris, including sharp fiberglass shards, have been washing ashore on the once-pristine coast of Nantucket island, Massachusetts. The ...

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Eve Zuckoff, Patrick Flanary, and Gilda Geist, was ...