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.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Equinor’s principal engineers co-ordinate people, parts and vessels to keep the turbines at Dudgeon and Sheringham Shoal offshore ...

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 ...

Teresa Weets and her daughter, Sally Freeman, look at a burned turbine June 11 while surveying damage on their farmland in Mechanicsville. Two turbines on their property caught fire after being stuck ...

A team of researchers from UMass Lowell and the United Kingdom are collaborating on an innovative project that could revolutionize wind turbine operation and maintenance, especially in remote ...

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Eve Zuckoff, Patrick Flanary, and Gilda Geist, was ...