Stacks of large fiberglass wind turbine blades near the Woodward airport mark the early stages of a recycling operation city ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL, Golden, Colo., U.S.) have successfully leveraged robotic assistance in the manufacture of wind ...

Although robots have been used by the wind energy industry to paint and polish blades, automation has not been widely adopted. Research at the laboratory demonstrates the ability of a robot to trim, ...

The maker of a massive wind turbine blade that broke apart off Nantucket Island and washed up on the beaches says a manufacturing problem was responsible. GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik said on an ...

Alex Ryan (at left) and Cameron Jordan (at right) work in the DREAMS Lab with Chris Williams as he explains the multiple aspects of a large multi-axis robotic arm 3D printer. The average wind turbine ...

When a wind turbine reaches the end of its life after two or three decades, the giant blades attached to it usually end up in a landfill. That’s largely because of the materials that are used. “[The ...

Verretex SA, an EPFL spin-off pioneering regenerated glass-fibre textiles, and Ryse Energy, a global manufacturer of small wind turbines and hybrid off-grid systems, announced on 2 September that they ...

The company behind the Vineyard Wind project is blaming a manufacturing error for the blade failure. Officials said they are now re-inspecting all of their blades off ...

Researchers see a realistic path forward to the manufacture of bio-derivable wind blades that can be chemically recycled and the components reused, ending the practice of old blades winding up in ...

Top officials at GE Vernova said they believe a “manufacturing deviation” at a facility in Canada is the likely cause of a turbine blade breakdown at Vineyard Wind 1 that resulted in foam and ...

WHAT’S BLAMED FOR THE FAILURE. MATT. WELL, ANTOINETTE VINEYARD WIND BELIEVES A MANUFACTURING MISSTEP RESULTED IN THIS WIND TURBINE BLADE FAILING. NEW IMAGES THIS MORNING SHOW THAT DAMAGED BLADE ABOUT ...