Purpose Future scenarios and life cycle assessment (LCA) are powerful tools that can
provide early sustainability assessments of novel products, technologies and systems. The …

Public concerns surrounding landscape conservation, noise pollution and impacts on bird
populations are commonly incorporated into the planning phase of wind energy projects …

Currently, only 5% of thermoset carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites (CFRPs) are
recycled into lower-value secondary products. Highly efficient closed-loop recycling of both …

The rapid development of the wind power sector with a steady increase in wind turbine size
has led to a rising utilization of the carbon fibres used in their blades. This trend is expected …

We critically review present knowledge of the life cycle environmental impacts of wind
power. We find that the current body of life cycle assessments (LCA) of wind power provides …

The wind power industry is growing rapidly. Wind turbines (WTs) are perceived as a low
environmental impact energy generation technology. While the service life of a WT is …

Circular economy and renewable energy infrastructure such as offshore wind farms are
often assumed to be developed in synergy as part of sustainable transitions. Offshore wind …

The possibility of recycling glass fibre-reinforced composites by using microwave pyrolysis
was examined. A scrap blade from a wind turbine was fragmented and microwave …

The rapid growth of renewable energy developments, particularly offshore wind, means that
worldwide there are hundreds of artificial structures in the marine environment that will at …

Abstract In India, Wind farms have been operating with obsolete wind energy generator and
are facing troubles due to the end-of-service life of the wind turbines and other components …