Vestas Refurbished Turbines
A complete solution to deploy refurbished wind turbines
While modern wind turbines are increasingly becoming a favourable choice for most customers, there can still be challenges involved in their establishment for certain customers. These challenges can arise in scenarios such as:
- Asset owners wanting to build smaller scale wind farms
- Customers located in remote locations outside the electrical grid
- Asset owners of ageing wind assets looking to upgrade their turbines
These scenarios can present various difficulties, including:
- Inadequate transportation and grid infrastructure.
- Challenging site access in mountainous, desert, or rural areas.
- Limited availability of cranes.
- Restrictions on tip or hub height.
- Decreased financing options and nonbankable power purchase agreements (PPAs).
Vestas has designed a solution that meets these challenges by using turbines that have been refurbished to a technically new condition. This solution offers highly reliable Vestas turbines at a lower investment than that required by a new turbine. Backed by Vestas warranty and service offerings, you can maximize your profits and increase the certainty of your wind power investment.
Refurbished turbines at a glance
Contact us to learn more
Vestas Refurbished Turbines offers a complete solution including supply of refurbished turbines, transportation to the site and installation.
Write to ageingfleet@vestas.com or contact your local Vestas Sales & Service office to discover more.
Availability of Vestas Refurbished Turbines
Benefits that enable a better business case
Refurbished to original, or better condition
Vestas Refurbished Turbine solution offers a variety of refurbished turbine technology from both Vestas' current and legacy platforms. These platforms have been extensively tested and proven resilient over decades of operational lifetime. The robust and reliable design ensures that key components of a turbine often have many years of serviceable life remaining even as they approach their 20-year end-of-design life.
Each turbine sold under the Vestas Refurbished Turbine Solution undergoes a rigorous refurbishment process, certified by DNV and performed by Vestas technicians in our global repair facilities. This process restores components to their original, or better, working condition and appearance. We offer flexible refurbishment plans tailored to each customer's business case, taking into consideration the expected lifetime of the turbines.
The refurbishment process
A comprehensive refurbishment is undertaken on every part of the turbine, ranging from the rethreading of bolt inserts to large and complex tasks, such as the refurbishment of blades and electrical cabinets.
The refurbished components are then used to rebuild the turbine, which is painted to give it a fresh look - so it doesn’t just perform like new, but looks the part too. The final step of the refurbishment process is a simulated testing where the turbine is put through a series of tests to ensure that it performs like new.
Click on the image to learn more about the refurbishment process on the different parts of the turbine.
Fact-based sustainability performance
Using refurbished turbines results in a significant reduction of the turbine’s carbon footprint. By refurbishing it is possible to reuse up to 95% of the material of a component compared to a new item, and on average 75% of all material is reused during the refurbishment process.
In fact, a refurbished component at Vestas saves, on average, 60% of CO2 emissions compared to a new part, when reverse logistics are taken into account – that’s the cost of bringing the item from the turbine to the factory for repairs. By refurbishing components, we can more than halve CO2 emissions and significantly improve the reuse of materials, thereby contributing substantially to improve a wind project’s sustainability performance.