Profile and Vision
eTa Blades is the leader in Italy in wind blades design, development and manufacturing.
Since February 2021 eTa Blades is part of the international group Nabla Wind Hub, the NextGEN wind solutions group able to offer exclusive services for the redevelopment of assets within the wind sector.
With a track record of over 2,000 blades produced starting 2012 for international customers and markets, eTa Blades, through its Design, Manufacturing, Moulding & Tooling, Blade Service and Testing & Certification departments, supports customers to extract the maximum value from their wind farms, partnering with them from new wind development opportunities up to large scale Re-blading programmes.
Different competences, coming from our top management / entrepreneurial experiences in wind, marine and aerospace, and multi-skilled teams, lead together with our partners, are joined to craft new blade profiles, adopting advanced materials and innovative technologies driving the efforts towards the next wind farm generation needs: enhancing the value of assets (vs lower or no incentives) while improving wind farm efficiency (vs market saturation) at a lower environmental impact (vs. deteriorated social acceptance).
Our vision is to be able to achieve:
- more from less windy sites while maintaining high efficiency under conditions of strong wind
- significantly improving of the output from old wind-farms providing longer life-cyle
- loads reduction on blade, gearbox and tower under any wind condition through the adoption of advanced manufacturing techniques and design methods embedding self adjusting bend-twist and passive deforming
- the ability to seamlessly support our clients from start to end, from designing a new blade suitable for their original equipment and site conditions, through to authorization procedures and investment decisions
In other words: a remarkable cost reduction ratio ($/kW) for wind turbines, and improved wind farm returns.
In order to ensure full control of processes, risks, business opportunities and environmental management, allowing the prevention of anomalies and the continuous improvement of the service, the company has decided to adopt an integrated policy for Quality and the Environment compliant with regulations. ISO 9001: 2015 and ISO 14001: 2015.
Profile and Vision
eTa Blades is the leader in Italy in wind blades design, development and manufacturing.
Since February 2021 eTa Blades is part of the international group Nabla Wind Hub, the NextGEN wind solutions group able to offer exclusive services for the redevelopment of assets within the wind sector.
With a track record of over 2,000 blades produced starting 2012 for international customers and markets, eTa Blades, through its Design, Manufacturing, Moulding & Tooling, Blade Service and Testing & Certification departments, supports customers to extract the maximum value from their wind farms, partnering with them from new wind development opportunities up to large scale Re-blading programmes.
Different competences, coming from our top management / entrepreneurial experiences in wind, marine and aerospace, and multi-skilled teams, lead together with our partners, are joined to craft new blade profiles, adopting advanced materials and innovative technologies driving the efforts towards the next wind farm generation needs: enhancing the value of assets (vs lower or no incentives) while improving wind farm efficiency (vs market saturation) at a lower environmental impact (vs. deteriorated social acceptance).
Our vision is to be able to achieve:
- more from less windy sites while maintaining high efficiency under conditions of strong wind
- significantly improving of the output from old wind-farms providing longer life-cyle
- loads reduction on blade, gearbox and tower under any wind condition through the adoption of advanced manufacturing techniques and design methods embedding self adjusting bend-twist and passive deforming
- the ability to seamlessly support our clients from start to end, from designing a new blade suitable for their original equipment and site conditions, through to authorization procedures and investment decisions
In other words: a remarkable cost reduction ratio ($/kW) for wind turbines, and improved wind farm returns.
In order to ensure full control of processes, risks, business opportunities and environmental management, allowing the prevention of anomalies and the continuous improvement of the service, the company has decided to adopt an integrated policy for Quality and the Environment compliant with regulations. ISO 9001: 2015 and ISO 14001: 2015.
The need for advanced wind blades solutions
The wind landscape is moving towards a different phase and standard wind blades might no longer fit all purposes:
- High yield sites availability saturating
- Incentives schemes becoming less remunerating or competitive
- Governments pushing for grid parity and innovation to bring wind energy to competition
- Wind industry consolidating – massive waves of acquisitions have overpassed the initial under-capitalization / fragmentation of the industry: new, more professional players, are emerging and will dominate the industry
- Assets in operations deteriorating while at the same time their overall value is decreasing over time
eTa Blades, through the adoption of the most advanced design and manufacturing techniques – new aero-elastic concepts on innovative aero-dynamic profiles, linked to the adoption of new materials originally unavailable or not used for the manufacturing of wind blades – aims at maximizing the technical performance of the wind assets.
eTa Blades has introduced the concept of Re-blading which represents not just the possibility to purchase unavailable spare components, often out of production when it comes to old turbine models, but the opportunity to increase the electrical output of the assets, reduce the OPEX, adopt a true Life-extension enabler.
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