Climate Adaptation

Vestas Looks at Wind Turbines Made of Wood With Startup Stake

  • Vestas takes minority interest in Swedish firm Modvion
  • Using wood instead of steel would help cut emissions
Inside a wood wind turbine tower from Modvion.Photographer: Paul Wennerholm/ Modvion
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Vestas Wind Systems A/S bought a minority stake in a Swedish startup that builds turbine towers out of wood.

The move by the world’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines could help remove hard to recycle and fossil fuel-intensive materials like steel from the production process.