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Wind giant Vestas says it can now fully recycle turbine blades

Danish wind turbine giant Vestas has announced today that it, along with a coalition of industry and academic leaders, has figured out how to fully recycle wind turbine blades. Fully recycling wind turbine blades As Electrek previously reported at the end of April, the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and Norwegian offshore wind developer Aker Offshore Wind worked out how to recycle…
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Vermont will use Tesla Autobidder software and Powerwalls to help balance the grid

Vermont-based electric utility Green Mountain Power (GMP) announced a new program to use Tesla Autobidder software and Powerwalls in order to replace fossil-fuel-powered power plants, thus helping to balance the grid. GMP has been one of Tesla’s best partners when it comes to deploying Powerwalls in a decentralized way with electric utilities. The relatively small electric utility operating in…
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Elon Musk visits Tesla Gigafactory Berlin, complains about bureaucracy as production is delayed

Elon Musk paid a visit to the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin construction site and gave an update on the expected start of production, which is delayed. Tesla had originally planned to start production at Gigafactory Berlin in July 2021. Lately, Musk has said that Tesla expects to start production toward the end of the year. Earlier this month, a report came out of Germany claiming that Tesla was…
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NASA chief Bill Nelson talks rockets, Moon plans, and partnerships

As a politician, space was Bill Nelson’s thing. He started out as a state lawmaker near Florida’s Space Coast, ascended to Congress in 1978, then became the House’s first sitting member to actually go to space in 1986, flying as a payload specialist aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. He’d spend three terms in the Senate shaping NASA’s budget and helping steer, from the policy side, NASA’s…
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