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Second Wind: This Squad Is Rejuvenating America’s Wind Turbine Fleets, Not Tearing Them Down
Nobody blinks when a decades-old office tower gets a facelift. New elevators, heating, and plumbing give the owner a high-performing, future-proof building at a fraction of the cost of building new — and eliminate much of the new construction red tape. Doing the same for another kind of skyscraper, an aging wind turbine, used to be far more rare. Owners could swap out aging parts for replacements, but they rarely changed the machine’s silhouette.