Congratulations to the final winners of the Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize! The U.S. Department of Energy today announced six Accelerate! phase winners, who were each awarded $500,000 in cash prizes and $100,000 in vouchers to work with DOE national laboratories to advance their wind turbine materials recycling processes. The winning submissions showcased a wide range of cost-effective technologies that can contribute to a sustainable wind energy ecosystem in the United States. Read the full announcement from DOE.  

Congratulations to:  

  • Cimentaire (Houston, Texas) 
  • Critical Materials Recycling (Boone, Iowa) 
  • Fletcher Team (Huntington, West Virginia) 
  • GreenTex Solutions LLC (Charleston, South Carolina) 
  • United Standard Materials Corporation (Houston, Texas) 
  • WIND REWIND (Orono, Maine) 

Stay tuned here on HeroX for updates as we share more about the teams’ winning submissions in the coming months! 

A map of the United States with pin drops showing the location of each of the 6 winners of the second phase of the Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize.