Wind turbine blade with a trailing edge spacing section

A blade (10) for a rotor of a wind turbine (2) having a horizontal rotor shaft, said rotor comprising a hub (8), from which the blade (10) extends in a radial direction when mounted to the hub (8), the blade having a longitudinal direction (r) with a tip end (16) and a root end (14) and a vertical direction, the blade further comprising:

• a profiled contour including a pressure side and a suction side, as well as a leading edge (18) and a trailing edge (20) with a chord having a chord length (c) extending therebetween, the profiled contour, when being impacted by an incident airflow, generating a lift;
• a pressure side shell part at least partly made of a sandwich structure including an inner skin (76), an outer skin (74), and an intermediate core material (75, 77);
• a suction side shell part at least partly made of a sandwich structure including an inner skin (86), an outer skin (84), and an intermediate core material (85, 87), wherein the suction side shell part is bonded to the pressure side shell part at least along the respective leading edges (18) of the shell parts;
• and
• a longitudinally extending spacing section (65) in which the respective trailing edges (58a, 58b) of the pressure side shell part and the suction side shell part are spaced apart,
• wherein a trailing edge shear web (45) is arranged at the trailing edge (20) of the blade (10) between and connected directly to the sandwich structure of the suction side shell part (84, 86, 87) at a position including the inner skin (86), the outer skin (84), and the intermediate core material (85, 87) of the sandwich structure of the suction side shell part, and the sandwich structure of the pressure side shell part (74, 76, 77) at a position including the inner skin (76), the outer skin (74), and the intermediate core material (75, 77) of the sandwich structure of the pressure side shell part, and
• wherein the trailing edge shear web (45) is spaced apart from the trailing edge of the suction side shell part in the chordwise direction.