In February 2023, leading wind turbine producer Vestas announced a chemical recycling technique that is a potential breakthrough for the industry. 10 The chemical process can break down epoxy ...

Infrastructure and renewable energy company Acciona, (Alcobendas, Spain), Acciona Energía (Alcobendas) and RenerCycle (Navarra) have announced the construction of Waste2Fiber, a wind blade recycling ...

On a global scale, an estimated 2.5 million tonnes of composite materials are currently in use in wind turbines. Approximately 350,000 tonnes of End-of-Life (EoL) wind turbine blades are expected to ...

The massive offshore wind turbine blade that broke near Nantucket was one of several recent failures of blades made by GE Vernova – a top US wind turbine manufacturer.

A wind turbine with a broken blade at Vineyard Wind 1, a wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, photographed Sept. 10, 2024. RANDI BAIRD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, FILE ...

As more wind farms are built around the country, disposal of old or broken blades is a concern. Opponents of wind energy have seized on the problem as a reason to try to block new wind facilities ...

The Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project, already years behind its original schedule, is now exporting power from 17 of its planned 62 turbines and plans have construction completed by the end of the ...

Nantucket residents lash out at turbine manufacturer, Vineyard Wind after debris from damaged blade litters beaches By Nick Stoico and Danny McDonald Globe Staff,Updated July 18, 2024, 11:05 a.m.

A tractor-trailer was pulling a wind turbine blade west on I-70 at about 5:30 a.m. when the blade struck the guardrail, causing the blade to go partially into the eastbound lanes, according to an ...

A wind turbine breaking is “highly unusual and rare,” Roger Martella, head of government affairs at GE Vernova, said Wednesday.