Critical technologies to improve the lifetime, efficient decommissioning and increase the circularity of offshore and onshore wind energy systems
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Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to at least two of the following expected outcomes:
• Improved overall lifetime, reliability, recyclability, sustainability, operability and maintainability of onshore and offshore wind turbines and foundations/substructures.
• Enhanced overall sustainability of wind energy systems based on mainstreamed Life Cycle Analysis addressing social, economic and environmental aspects, as well as improved circularity.
• Mainstreamed affordable high life-cycle performance, life extension, more efficient decommissioning, and improved circularity of wind turbine components.
• Potential new markets in wind turbines recycling and/or re-purposing. Scope:
Innovative technologies to improve the lifetime, efficient decommissioning and increase the circularity of wind energy systems. Project can address one of the following points:
• Development of improved, more damage-tolerant materials (composites and adhesives) considering different external conditions in which the materials are used (consider very low/high temperatures, ice, corrosion, erosion.
• The development of improved manufacturing procedures for turbine components and construction methods for wind turbine farms and design methods for wind turbine components.
• The development of materials and interfaces for joints of major load-carrying parts like main spars (split blades and tower parts).
• The development of bio-based fibres and resins with improved mechanical properties.
• Lifetime extension by innovative design for increased resilience and repair solutions for in the first-place wind turbine components like blades, drive train and generators’, and support structures.
• New installation, decommissioning, and condition monitoring technologies and operation and maintenance methodologies (e.g. remote controlled devices for in situ repairs by robots).
• New efficient recycling technologies for wind energy components.
• Alternatives in materials/new advanced materials.
• New technologies for effective and environmentally friendly decommissioning of wind energy systems. But it is not excluded to consider other solutions.
This R&I need is critical for onshore wind given the large volumes of capacity to be decommissioned in the next decade. The R&I need was also identified in the offshore renewable energy strategy (COM(2020) 741 final) that commits the Commission to ‘systematically integrate the principle of ‘circularity by design’ into renewables research & innovation’.
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Activities are expected to achieve TRL 5 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.
- Status
- Closed
- Deadline
- (time not stated)
- Opens
- Published
- Total budget
- €12,000,000
- Grant range
- €4,000,000 – €4,000,000
- Country
- European Union (EU-wide)
- Programme
- Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
- Official page
- Open at the source portal
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