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.

There were hundreds of wind turbines spinning in the delta breeze, except for one: tower D18. I was in the rolling Montezuma Hills northeast of the Bay Area to document the repair of a giant ...

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Following precision machining and extraction of the damaged bushing, the patented bushing is inserted into the rotor blade root which has been placed in a repair environment within the wind park The ...

Officials with the Vineyard Wind energy project and turbine manufacturer GE Vernova unveiled a new plan on Friday to recover from the failure of a wind turbine blade in July that scattered debris into ...

The modular Aerones robotic system for wind blade maintenance and repair. Photo Credit, all images: Aerones Aerones (Riga, Latvia) has unveiled and demonstrated a robot that offers full-service ...

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 ...

Nearly 3.5 million people have watched a YouTube video showing a massive May tornado rip through southwest Iowa, shredding and felling giant wind turbines in its path. MidAmerican Energy says it has ...

General Electric has discovered "stress lines" in wind-power turbines operating off the coast of Block Island, necessitating shutdown of four of the five wind mills this summer. In a statement, Danish ...

ON JULY 16TH Royal Dutch Shell, an oil and gas company, and Scottish Power, a subsidiary of Iberdrola, a Spanish electricity utility, made an announcement. They were, they said, jointly submitting ...