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Big offshore wind farms are now transmitting sweet, sweet battery juice to the US grid

Moments before midnight on Tuesday, a single turbine near Martha’s Vineyard delivered 5 megawatts of renewable energy to the New England grid. The turbine is one out of 62 planned for Vineyard Wind.

AirLoom has a plan to halve the cost of wind power

The Wyoming-based startup thinks the traditional three-bladed turbine is played out and has a new design to bring wind energy to more places.

Clean energy: Scrubbing wind turbines with robots nets Aerones $39M

Aerones, a robotics startup that scrubs and inspects wind turbines so humans don’t have to, secured $38.9 million in fresh funding this month from dozens of undisclosed investors, TechCrunch has

This robot crawls along wind turbine blades looking for invisible flaws

Wind turbines are a great source of clean power, but their apparent simplicity — just a big thing that spins — belie complex systems that wear down like any other, and can fail with disastrous con

GE Acquires Tall Turbine Tech From Wind Tower Systems

<img src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0006/0440/60440v1-max-250x250.jpg" class="shot2"></img> General Electric (GE, NYSE: GE) announced today that it acquired technology from Wind

M9 Defense Raises $1.4 Million For Advanced Hydroforming Technology

<img src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0008/1790/81790v1-max-250x250.jpg" class="shot2"></img> A Seattle-area materials science company, <a href="http://www.m9defense.com/">M9 Defen

Germany invests $47 billion in offshore wind farms

The German government today announced plans to build 30 wind farms in the North and Baltic Sea north of Germany. Each facility will cost $1.57 billion. The first farm will become reality this year. By