Decommissioned wind turbine redesigned as eco-friendly tiny home, scalable to build '2,000 houses a year'

Since 2000, wind energy has increased drastically across the globe. In the United States alone, wind electricity generation has risen from 6 billion kilowatt-hours in 2000 to about 430 billion in 2023.

This is an increase of over 7,000%.

But most wind turbines have a life span of about 20 years, meaning much of the initial wind energy infrastructure has been or will soon be decommissioned worldwide.

European clean energy company Vattenfall has an innovative idea for the next chapter of these wind turbines.

“We are looking for innovative ways in which you can reuse materials from used turbines as completely as possible,” said Thomas Hjort, Vattenfall’s director of innovation.

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