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

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 ...

Ignacio Galán, executive chairman at Iberdrola, discusses what the company and its vendor are doing to recover debris ...

NREL Advances Method for Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades Aug. 27, 2024 — Researchers see a realistic path forward to the manufacture of bio-derivable wind blades that can be chemically recycled ...

it was the third failure of a GE Vernova blade that has been reported recently. The failure occurred Thursday morning on an installed GE Vernova turbine at the Dogger Bank wind farm off the ...

Although wind turbines generate electricity via an eco-friendly process, the giant blades of those turbines typically end up in landfills once they wear out. That could change, however ...

The researchers demonstrated an end-of-life strategy for the PECAN blades and proposed recovery and reuse strategies for each component. "The PECAN method for developing recyclable wind turbine ...

Accidents involving blades made by GE Vernova have delayed projects off the coasts of Massachusetts and England and could imperil climate goals. A wind turbine blade more than 300 feet long ...

GE Vernova reported on Thursday that the construction issues caused by a broken blade it made for the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts will keep the company’s wind turbine ...

In a trial staged in Norway, a black turbine blade led to a 70% reduction in bird strikes. However, there are concerns that making wind turbines more arresting to birds could make them more ...

So by painting one of those blades black, it actually interferes this invisible blur.” This summer, roughly 30 wind turbine blades have been painted black at a Wyoming wind farm operated by ...

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 ...