Turbine Blade Circular Design Challenge

Turbine Blade
Circular Economy

Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre, in partnership with the Trade Commissioner Service, is hosting a challenge with Vestas, a leading global wind turbine manufacturer.

Vestas is looking for creative innovations within recycling, material processing and new materials to make their wind turbine blades of today fully recyclable and enable fully recyclable blades for the future generation of wind turbines.

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Submission window closes: Friday, December 4th at 12:00 PM PT

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We’re Looking For the Next Generation of Fully-Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades

Challenge 1 – Turbine Blade Circular Design, Materials

The first SDG Connect challenge, Vestas’ Turbine Blade Circular Design, Materials challenge, is an open call to technology innovators and startups to develop:

- Advanced solutions/materials that can be used in Vestas’ next-generation wind turbine blades that will be fully recyclable at end-of-life
- Solutions that align with Vestas’ sustainability strategy goal of having zero-waste wind turbines by 2040.

Challenge 2 – Turbine Blade Circular Design, Decommissioning

The second SDG Connect challenge, Vestas’ Turbine Blade Circular Design, Decommissioning challenge, is an open call to technology innovators and startups to develop:

- Solutions for separating materials in decommissioned wind turbine blades
- Solutions for making the separated recycled materials applicable for relevant industry