Three noted wind-energy experts from our Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department – first author James Manwell (the founding director of the Wind Energy Center at UMass Amherst) and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Llewellyn King has been a player in the energy space since 1970. Jimmy Dean, the country musician, actor and entrepreneur, ...

Wind energy research and development began at UMass Amherst under the leadership of program founder, Professor William E. Heronemus. Professor Heronemus, along with a number of other faculty, began ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Online commenters took the opportunity to give the internet a lesson about how wind turbines really work after one poster made ...

Wind turbines are becoming increasingly common in the United States and around the world, and while that's a great thing for renewable energy, wind turbines are causing an unexpected problem for ...

A renewable energy company is advancing plans to build large wind farms in Alaska, even as President Donald Trump has moved to paralyze the industry. Alaska Renewables has proposed wind projects that ...

Twenty seconds. That's about all it took for a demolition crew to tear down seven wind turbines in Madison County, New York. Until then, those turbines had been standing for twenty years providing ...