Producer responsibility: Defining the incentive for recycling composite wind turbine blades in Europe

R. Cherrington, V. Goodship, J. Meredith, B.M. Wood, S.R. Coles, A. Vuillaume, A. Feito-Boirac, F. Spee and K. Kirwan

Energy Policy, 2012, vol. 47, issue C, 13-21

Abstract: Current global commitments to tackle climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions are resulting in increasing demand for wind energy technologies as a secure, affordable supply of energy. However, the recent expansion of wind energy generation is creating a growing waste disposal issue associated with the decommissioning of wind turbine (WT) blades in the future.

Keywords: Wind energy; Legislation; Composite (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (13)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421512002819
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:enepol:v:47:y:2012:i:c:p:13-21

DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.03.076

Access Statistics for this article

Energy Policy is currently edited by N. France

More articles in Energy Policy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().