While designs do vary between manufacturers, most wind turbine blades incorporate a carbon fiber "skeleton" (known as a spar cap), a balsa wood or expanded foam inner core, and a fiberglass shell.

A team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado may have a solution, however: a turbine blade that can be ...

Global carbon fiber in wind turbine rotor blade market was valued at US$ 4,392.0 million in 2023 and is projected to attain a market valuation of US$ 15,903.7 million by 2032 at a CAGR of 15.37% ...

Accidents involving blades made by GE Vernova have delayed projects off the coasts of Massachusetts and England and could ...

Wind power has a waste problem that has been difficult to solve. Turbine blades made from a new plant-based material could make them recyclable. By Minho Kim The blades on the newest wind turbines ...

NREL Advances Method for Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades Aug. 27 ... a wind farm can offset the carbon emissions generated across its entire 30-year lifespan, when compared to thermal power ...

Researchers say they've built and tested a 'structural battery' that packs a device or EV's chassis with energy, saving a ton ...

A groundbreaking achievement has been made in the wind energy sector, as the world’s first in-situ Major Component Exchange ...

In recent years, wind energy has become a bigger and bigger part of Texas’ power portfolio. And as it has become more common, so have questions about what happens to those big turbine blades ...