The rapid growth of wind energy brings with it a pressing challenge: how to manage turbines and entire wind farms as they approach the end of their design life. With many assets now surpassing 20–25 years of operation, decisions around lifetime extension, repowering, or decommissioning have become critical. These choices require a careful balance of technical feasibility, financial performance, regulatory compliance, and sustainability.

Over five weeks, participants will build a comprehensive understanding of wind farm end-of-life management through a structured progression of methods, frameworks, and case perspectives.

• Technical assessment：Learn how to evaluate structural integrity and remaining useful life using the latest techniques for condition monitoring, health assessment, and failure prediction.
• Decision framework: Apply risk- and performance-based approaches to determine whether lifetime extension, repowering, or decommissioning creates the most value.
• Economic tools: Gain practical skills with techno-economic models and life-cycle costing to compare alternative end-of-life scenarios under varying market and policy conditions.
• Sustainability and circularity: Explore circular economy principles, including innovative strategies for component reuse, recycling, and material recovery—especially for blades and composite structures.
• Policy and regulation: Situate technical and economic approaches within the broader regulatory landscape, understanding how evolving international standards and practices shape end-of-life strategies.