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The blades that will take turbine sizes to the next level at sea and on land

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Exclusive: ‘No need to ever landfill’ – tackling wind power's sustainability problem

Wind power is at the forefront of the global response to the climate crisis, but some of the materia...

Exclusive: Fraunhofer IWES unveils 115-metre-plus blade test rig for large wind turbine rotor blades

The German Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) has inaugurated a new test rig for 11...

Turbines of the Year 2022: Rotor blades

To keep pushing the boundaries on rotor size, favourable mass and fast production ramp-up will be ke...

2022: Innovations that could shape the wind industry

Windpower Monthly rounds up a handful of the innovations the wind industry is exploring that could h...

Exclusive: How can automated blade coating meet industry, quality and future volume demands?

Following a successful robotised blade-coating demonstration last year, Tebulo Industrial Robotics t...

Exclusive: Siemens Gamesa's recyclable blades with new resin system well suited for large blades

Eize de Vries gets an exclusive insight into Siemens Gamesa’s recyclable blade technology...

Exclusive: Robot trial looks to speed up production for large wind turbine blades

Dutch firm TebuloRobotics hopes its autonomous mobile robot (AMR) vehicles will be able to coat a 10...

Turbines of the Year 2020: Rotor blades

Producing longer, lighter units using existing production facilities is a key consideration...

Exclusive: Enercon fires-up first E-160 prototype

As Enercon put the final touches to the installation of its 4.6MW E160 EP5 E1 prototype, Eize de Vri...

Material considerations: covering up the cracks on turbine failure

The Material Failure Investigation Group of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) h...

Turbines of the year 2019: Rotor blades

Ever longer and generally lighter units mark the top contenders in a hotly contested class....

Look and listen for blade defects

The latest theories and current practices of rotor-blade monitoring and maintenance in the 100GW US ...

SGRE brings leading-edge protection as retrofit

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy's (SGRE) solution to prevent leading-edge erosion combines a hardwar...

Clash of the titans -- top 5 biggest onshore turbines

Nameplate capacities of more than 5MW; rotor blades pushing beyond the 80-metre mark; towers exceedi...

Testing lags behind blade development

As rotor blades get longer and lighter, more complex designs introduce potential errors during manuf...

Turbines of the year 2018: Rotor blades

Balancing transport and installation logistics with the requirement for bigger rotors....

Ten of the biggest offshore turbines

WORLDWIDE: We have focused on turbines in production or for which orders are being taken, omitting t...

Ten of the biggest offshore turbines

WORLDWIDE: We have focused on turbines in production or for which orders are being taken, omitting t...

Nordex spread its wings with N149 prototype

GERMANY: Nordex is leading the way on large onshore turbines with super-sized rotor diameters, follo...

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