Flexing the Limits of Land-Based Wind Turbine Rotor Growth

Funded by DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, the Big Adaptive Rotor project works to design and enable the next generation of land-based wind turbines with rotors that stretch 206 meters (m) in diameter, which will increase capacity factors by 10% or more over a typical land-based turbine.

While wind turbines with larger rotors have advantages, the length and width of their blades creates transportation challenges to make true on the adage, bigger is better.

Learn more about how national laboratory researchers are working to overcome this logistical challenge.