High performance provides cheap electricity
The blades are the motor in a wind turbine – it is the blades that extract the energy from the wind.
The most direct way to exert any decisive influence on the price of wind power is by increasing annual energy production. In this regard, the blades play a crucial role. Different design details and features help ensure high performance for LM blades.
During more than 30 years, LM Wind Power has consistently achieved improvements in blade efficiency. Our targeted research in fields such as materials and design has enabled us to build ever-longer blades that are optimised compared with other parts of the wind turbines.
Our own wind tunnel
We’ve come a long way with the tools already at our disposal. However, as we want to continue to make crucial improvements to blade performance, LM Wind Power decided in mid-2005 to launch a major campaign with a focus on integrated aerodynamic design. From mid-2006, researchers at LM Wind Power have been able to test the aerodynamics of wind turbine blades at wind speeds of up to 375 km per hour in our own wind tunnel. Read more about the wind tunnel here
30 years of experience with aerodynamics
It’s all a question of exploiting the power of the wind to best possible effect. LM Wind Power has built up the greatest body of know-how in the industry in the fields of blade design and aerodynamics.
> More about aerodynamic design
Innovation – paving the way to lower energy prices
Good ideas provide better results.Our specialists are busy at work in LM Wind Power’s R&D department to make the wind turbine blades of the future even better and cheaper.
> More about our innovative thinking
Integrated blade development
To boost the efficiency of wind turbine
blades and reduce their price, perfect
interaction between the blades and the
other components is required.
> How we work with our customers