Vestas – the world’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines – has unveiled a solution to one of the sector’s largest hurdles, blade recycling. The company, which has now formed a coalition with several industry and academic leaders, claims that it will commercialize a new approach to allow turbine blades to be fully recycled, avoiding the dumping of old blades. With wind power set to approach 5,000 GW of capacity worldwide by 2050, and as many as four million turbine blades will be in active operation, with as many as 200,000 – each waying around 70 tons – facing retirement each year. A study by the Electric Power Research Institute has predicted that this could account for 0.015% of all the…