With around 70 percent of the votes from the almost 300 participants at Energy Cluster Denmark's annual meeting in Esbjerg Music Hall, DecomBlades has been named Innovation Project of the Year 2025, Energy Cluster Denmark informs in a press release.
The Innovation Project of the Year award is given to a project that demonstrates strong partnership, technological innovation and green effect. The winning project has been selected from a number of completed collaborations, all of which have been part of Energy Cluster Denmark's innovation portfolio.
- We must pay tribute to the innovation projects that create real change - and we do so with this award for DecomBlades. They show how strong partnerships and technological innovation can solve concrete challenges and create value for both the green transition and the business community, says Glenda Napier.
DecomBlades won ahead of the finalists NIVI IQ and Weldcast, who, like the winner, have worked with innovative solutions for the green transition. The project was recognized for its pyrolysis process, where glass fibers from used blades are recycled and used in the production of new, stronger fibers. DecomBlades has also developed industrial material passports that make it easier for recycling companies to handle the blades.
- It is a huge recognition for the entire group of partners and the work we have put into the project to be chosen as Innovation Project of the Year. I see it as a recognition of a need to solve the challenge of finding a solution for recycling used wind turbine blades and a recognition of showing a solution that is not only sustainable but is fully circular AND can reduce volumes. And then it is an art to get to the finish line: We have achieved this important milestone not at the laboratory level, but on an industrial scale and produced and installed new blades. The process has real commercial prospects, says Irene Bach Velling Villadsen, Project Manager at Makeen.
The circle of partners behind DecomBlades includes Ørsted, LM Wind Power, Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, FLSmidth, Makeen Energy, HJ Hansen Recycling, University of Southern Denmark and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
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