Two companies are partnering to tackle one of the wind energy industry’s most persistent challenges—and they may set a world ...

The impending ban on dumping wind turbine blades into landfills in the EU means that incineration will soon become the only option. This is why TNO is working on the design of fully recyclable turbine ...

Reporting in the journal Thermal Engineering, researchers from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute have now developed a parameter-driven optimization approach to blade design that makes sense ...

This resulted in a series of improvements to the models used in the design of large turbine blades. Through these projects, industry is now able to design state of the art wind turbines. Testing and ...

Sandia’s 100-meter blade is the basis for the Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor (SUMR), a new low-cost offshore 50-MW wind turbine. At dangerous wind speeds, the blades are stowed and aligned ...

Thus, the blades could potentially serve a useful second life in this application. A proposed design of a utility pole built out of a used wind turbine blade. Credit: Alshannaq, Bank, Scott and ...

Above: A robot designed improve safety and efficiency of wind turbine blade repair. Top Image: Team members from left to right: Peter Booras, Sam Brown, Jake Geraci, Daniel Llorca, Zhenhua Lu, Patrick ...

The design works. The standard serrations on wind turbine blades cut noise by 1.5 to 2 decibels; in early tests, FeatherEdge reduced noise by an additional 3.4 decibels. (It’s possible that the ...

In a city where wind speeds rarely exceed 4 ... the blades were refined to maximize energy efficiency in urban settings. The result: an efficiency seven times greater than conventional turbines ...

With wind power a foundation of the energy transition, we forecast how the ageing global fleet will be addressed.