This high-tech prototype 80-metre blade — being fabricated at Vestas’ West Medina Mills R&D centre on the Isle of Wight, off southern England — has been under development for more than two years, soaking up a large amount of the company’s annual €300m-400m ($400m-533m) spend on R&D.
The new blade is destined for Vestas’ 8MW V164 turbine, the machine specially designed for the coming round of wind-power mega-developments in Northern Europe’s hostile waters.
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