Solar has outpaced wind as the renewable energy leader. But recent innovations, like taller towers and longer rotor blades, could unlock significantly more wind energy potential — though not without ...

Thanks to the development of new, lightweight rotors, engineers in Germany have created a small wind turbine that excels at ...

Use of green energy hit an all-time high last year: Renewables produced nearly a third of the electricity used around the globe, according to a new report out from the global policy network REN-21.

Clean-energy supplier EDF Renewables North America announced a deal Monday for a first-of-its-kind project to use wind power to capture carbon dioxide from the air and store it underground. The direct ...

Wind energy infrastructure doesn’t produce power if the air isn’t moving, and solar doesn’t generate power if the sun’s not out. But that doesn’t mean that either source of energy is "worthless" ...

CALEDONIA - Unico, a local manufacturer, already makes solar-powered pumps to draw oil, natural gas or water from the Earth. Thursday it took a step toward wedding wind power to solar for operating ...