All additional Vestas' Life Cycle Assessments can be found on the page below. 

Vestas works with Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) to develop increasingly energy-efficient products whilst mitigating the environmental impacts throughout the turbine's lifetime. Since 1999, Vestas has been developing Life Cycle Assessments of wind power to provide a ‘cradle to grave’ evaluation of the environmental impacts of Vestas’ products and activities.

The studies assess a wind turbine’s entire bill-of-materials accounting for the approximately 25,000 parts that make up a wind turbine. In a Life Cycle Assessment, a complete wind power plant is assessed up to the point of the electricity grid, including the wind turbine itself, foundation, site cabling and the transformer station.

SiteLCA™ Benefits

SiteLCA™ provides customers or project developers with transparent environmental facts (such as carbon footprint, return on-energy, water-use or environmental benefits, etc.) of a specific wind plant. These fact-based indicators increase business case certainty by supporting the customer’s own sustainability strategy (e.g. energy case, power plant benefits, index ratings, etc.) and supporting the project planning / permitting process (e.g. decommissioning plan, public acceptance, consultation and response). By identifying key environmental indicators early in the project, customers are well-placed for successful and trustworthy external communications of power plant performance and to inform their energy strategy utilising fact-based information.

SiteLCA™ may also quantify the power plant's key environmental benefits (such as turbine recycling or repowering options at end-of-life) and identify potential management risks of the plant, such as providing material breakdown for decommissioning plans or identifying potential key environmental impacts.

Delivery

Vestas Site LCA™ is delivered by experienced experts and builds upon a long track-record of disclosing turbine environmental performance data since 1999. The service utilises advanced turbine models developed in-house by Vestas, complying with international ISO standards and third party review, which have been critically acknowledged as state-of-the-art analysis of wind power. For more information, please take a look at the the Vestas SiteLCA™ brochure.