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.
When a wind turbine malfunctions and the problem can’t be fixed remotely, General Electric technicians have traditionally had two options. If the malfunction occurred in an easily accessible part of ...
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 ...
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The Trump administration's decision to pause five offshore wind projects due to "national security concerns" will have ...
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 ...
With CNC Onsite’s method, the rotor blade is dismounted before it is placed in a repair environment at the wind farm. The damaged inserts are then drilled out and replacement parts inserted. Before ...
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 ...
President Donald Trump kicked off his holiday week with a speech at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Florida on Saturday. Speaking to the crowd of young conservatives, the President ...
Could a wind turbine pose any sort of national security risk? This is just getting to the heart of an unprecedented Trump ...