Most wind turbines are designed and certified for a 20–25 year service life. After this period, they have to be decommissioned or the accredited operational lifetime has to be extended, often accompanied by repowering.
While processes for decommissioning/repowering onshore wind parks are well known, the experience with offshore ones is limited. This project shall close this gap by devising and developing ecoinnovative concepts.
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Energy transition: where is long-term thinking in offshore wind energy?
22 September 2020Offshore wind energy with a focus on the North Sea region and its dominant countries is developing to the disadvantage of Germany. In addition, Asia i…
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Bending Wind Turbine Blades Circular
11 September 2020Wind turbine blade waste is becoming an increasing problem as the first generation of turbines is now being decommissioned and the blades are ending u…
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Report on Norwegian companies: “Methods from decommissioning of oil and gas are applicable in offshore wind”
03 July 2020DeepOcean, Reach Subsea, Kvaerner, and AF Decom. Many Norwegian companies have years of experience in offshore decommissioning, and the field of busin…
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Stakeholder Report: “A vital interest in decommissioning”
23 June 2020“A vital interest in decommissioning”
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Chemistry to reincarnate old turbine blades
27 May 2020The Dutch recycling company Virol is using chemistry in the scrapping of test samples of blades from LM Wind Power. The target is to find a new chemic…
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