When most of today’s wind projects were developed, first costs were the focus; operations and maintenance (O&M) costs were largely unknown. Now, with hundreds of turbine models in operation—sometimes ...

Wind turbines, which contributed more than 9% of U.S. electricity in 2021, last roughly 20 to 25 years before they must be replaced, according to the Energy Information Administration. But some social ...

Aircraft safety is a hot topic these days, with Federal Aviation Administration investigators looking into door seals at Boeing, aircraft slides flying off mid air and engine failures plaguing several ...

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 ...

In an RL-based control system, the turbine (or wind farm) controller is realized as an agent that observes the state of the ...