BETWEEN THE LINES Wind turbine blades: elium supports® THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY A major user of wind turbines, ENGIE also sees itself as a playing a driving role in terms of their lifecycle. Vianney de Lavernée, Head of Strategy, CSR and Innovation at ENGIE France Renouvelables, tells us how the Group and its partners—including Arkema—are working to make them more durable and recyclable. ® What is the link between ENGIE and “Elium Arkema in wind turbines? thermoplastic Vianney de Lavernée – ENGIE and Arkema are both part of thewind power value chain in resin is the France.ENGIE operates onshoreand offshore wind farms, and Arkema is involved pstreau m in missing link producing the resin that is used with fibersto amke wind turbine blades. From oneend of te chain th o in blade the other, we are linked bytargts fore imrovinp g manufacturing processes and aking them morm e recyclability.” envArkema came together to lauironmentally friendly. This iswhy ENGInch theZEBApr jR oeE dan Vianney ct de Lavernée in 2020. What is the ZEBRA project? V.d.L– ZEBRA stands for “Zero wastE Blade ReseArch”. For this project, launched in September 2020, we pooled and mobilized members of the recyclability target for wind turbine production, operation and dismantling chain in order to demonstratethe recyclability of wind wind turbine blades turbine blades using Elium re®sin. As a ymajor buer of wind turbines in Europe and worldwide,ENGIE plays 100% a doffebeZEBfully recycled. Faced withriving role with regard to irs a future-led solution thtaRA participants got invlts sppler, andArkemau i sdes ta llos theblw a othischallenge, hethert oding fioved, u brcl in e producer Owens Corning, bladem canufaturr LMe Wind Power, and SUEZ forrec ling and meriyc at asl Total project budget for Zebra of eco-design. And, of course, our aademicc partners and researchers, the Jules Vener reearch is nstitute and 18.5 theCANOE platform. € m 14