About Us
ACT Blade develops and commercializes the ACT Blade technology, the lightest and only modular wind turbine blade, made of an internal composite structure and fully covered by highly engineered textile.
ACT Blade's headquarters are in Edinburgh, while its subsidiary, ACT Blade Europe Srl is in Italy, with headquarter in Naples and operations in Brindisi. The companies collaborate to develop core operations and R&D activities.
Story
In November 2015 ACT Blade Ltd was founded to develop and commercialise the ACT Blade technology, created and patented by its founders. In October 2019, its subsidiary ACT Blade Europe S.r.l. was founded to develop the firm’s core operations, R&D activities, and manufacturing capacity in continental Europe.
Since the outset, ACT Blade has collaborated with leading industry players and various European research & Innovation centres. From 2019, it has been supported by EIT InnoEnergy. In 2023, ACT Blade has been selected as one a top 100 solutions in Europe for the transition to net-zero by the-arch.eu.
An initial feasibility study (conducted in collaboration with DNV-GL and ORE Catapult) demonstrated the technical viability and potential energy cost saving benefits of our technology.
Since then, we have developed a prototype 13m long ACT Blade (named the ACT27) that has passed the static, fatigue and static-post-fatigue tests at ORE Catapult. Three ACT27 were mounted on a 225KW turbine on the 30 Jul 2021 and generated energy for 6-months to demonstrate its operational viability (test run for 6-months and successfully completed on the 31st of Jan 2022).
A wholly-owned subsidiary company – ACT Blade Europe S.r.l. was founded in October 2019 in Italy, to develop the firm’s core operations, some R&D activities, and manufacturing capacity in continental Europe.
Timeline
2015–16
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ACT Blade is founded following a feasibility study with DNV-GL and Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult
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Patent granted in UK
2017–18
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ACT 55m scaled prototype, with the National Composite Centre, ORE Catapult, Williams F1 and BVG Associate
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DNV-GL statement of feasibility
2019
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EIT InnoEnergy fund award ACT27 1st full scale blade with ORE Catapult, and universities of Strathclyde and Sheffield.
2020
ACT 27
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Design completed
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Survived static tests
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Wind tunnel test
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Patent granted in Europe & China
2021
ACT 27
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Structural test completed
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Test on V27 turbine started
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Enel Green Power collaboration
2022–23
ACT 27 Test completed
ACT one of EU-100 NetZero transition solutions
ACT 100 Design conformity statement
2024 >>
ACT 100 product development
Recent company awards
October 2021
G20 - Innovation League
2022
EIT Public Award
2023
ARCH: of of the 100 EU solution for the transition
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