World First — 50m All-Timber Blade to Be Examined in Wind Turbine

Big all-timber and totally recyclable blades – greater than 50 metres in dimension – may tower over wind generators from late 2026, marking an enormous shake-up for the US $100 billion-plus wind vitality market. That’s in accordance with Voodin Blade Expertise, a German start-up that final 12 months examined the world’s first blade made out of Stora-Enso laminated veneer lumber (LVL) – a fabric with an analogous stiffness-to-weight ratio to fibreglass to make blades that thrive in all situations.

Voodin will now group up with Senvion, who will trial the blades on its 4.2MW turbine platform (the most important within the Indian market) – a partnership that “brings our expertise to a brand new scale,” in accordance with Tom Siekmann, Voodin Blade Expertise’s CEO – which eliminates the necessity for moulds, cuts vitality consumption in manufacturing and slashes CAPEX prices in blade development.