Wind turbines usually jut up from the ground like giant pinwheels. Now a company in China is exploring a new form factor: flying wind turbines. These zeppelin-like aircraft float high in the sky, ...

These quirky designs will fly wind power into the future—or so their inventors hope. Measuring anywhere from 18 to 200 feet in length, these flying turbines by the five leading startup companies in ...

It's only fitting that the company generating electricity by loop-de-looping a ground-tethered winged drone is from North Carolina. After all, North Carolina is the birthplace of human flight. In 2023 ...

Danish renewables giant Ørsted is deploying heavy-lift cargo drones for the first time in an operational campaign at a Dutch offshore wind farm. The heavy-lift cargo drone will transport cargo from a ...

Ørsted says it’s now the world’s first offshore wind company to use autonomous giant drones to transport cargo to turbines. Ørsted is trialing the 128-pound (58 kg) drones at the UK’s Hornsea 1 ...

China’s Beijing Linyi Yunchuan Energy Technology has tested the S2000 airborne wind energy system, a helium-filled airship carrying 12 turbines. Flying at 6,560 feet above Sichuan Province, it ...

Amid a massively ambitious project to build the world’s largest fixed-wing aircraft – designed to fly wind turbines directly to wind farms – US energy firm Radia maintains it is taking a ...