China achieves new breakthroughs in international standards in wind power field

China's State Administration for Market Regulation announced on the 12th that the International Electrotechnical Commission has recently officially released the "Wind Energy Power Generation System Part 28-2: Decommissioning and Recycling Preparation" international standard developed by China. The development of this standard fully draws on the standardization practice results of China's wind power industry and contributes Chinese solutions to the global response to the decommissioning of large-scale wind turbines.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the global wind power industry, a large number of early-stage wind turbines have gradually entered the retirement cycle. Wind turbine decommissioning and disposal, resource recycling, site restoration and other links are directly related to ecological and environmental risk management and efficient resource utilization. The lack of unified technical requirements will not only lead to potential environmental pollution risks, but also cause a waste of equipment resources and restrict the green and sustainable development of the global wind power industry. In this context, the establishment of unified international technical rules related to decommissioning and recycling of wind power equipment has become a common urgent need for the global industry.

On June 10, an aerial photo was taken of the giant wind turbines at the Nantong Offshore Wind Farm in Jiangsu Province. (Drone photo) Photo by China News Service reporter Yang Bo

As the first international standard of the International Electrotechnical Commission's Wind Power System Technical Committee focusing on the end-of-life decommissioning and recycling of wind turbines, it clarifies the technical requirements for key links such as decommissioning of wind turbines, preliminary preparations for recycling, and site restoration, establishes the core technology route for hierarchical recycling, and builds a complete technical framework that adapts to the current industrial status of multiple countries.

The release of this international standard will provide unified technical compliance for global wind turbine decommissioning and disposal, resource recycling, and site ecological restoration, and provide an important reference for countries to carry out program design and implementation inspection of related products and projects. This international standard was compiled by Chinese experts as project leaders and experts from Denmark, the United States, France, Spain, Finland, Japan, South Korea, Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries. (over)