IEA Wind Task 45: Recycling Wind Turbine Blades

Project: Research

Project Details

Description

The IEA Wind Task 45 is a cross disciplinary task covering the many facet of wind turbine blade recycling.

Layman's description

The challenges related to wind turbine blade recycling are broad and range from technical challenges to legislation disparities and lack of information on the materials to be recycled. Recycling wind turbine blades is a process with a complex value chain involving several stakeholders with different interests.

To address the issues related to blade recycling, this Task brings the key stakeholders together to identify the barriers and mitigation strategies for the implementation of large scale wind turbine blades recycling solutions.
Short titleIEA Wind Task 45
AcronymIEA Wind Task 45
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date01/10/202128/02/2023

Collaborative partners

  • Technical University of Denmark (lead)

Keywords

  • Wind energy
  • Wind turbines
  • Recycling
  • reuse
  • Circular economy