The present invention is related to rotor blade for a wind
energy plant, with a blade root, with a first longitudinal portion starting from the blade root, with a second longitudinal portion, following up the first longitudinal portion and running into a blade tip, with a first surface, facing a
tower of the wind
energy plant in its assembled state, and a second surface, facing away from the
tower of the wind
energy plant in its assembled state, wherein an imaginary
reference plane is spanned up by a rotation, taking place in the operation of the rotor blade, of the longitudinal axis of the first longitudinal portion around the
rotational axis of a rotor of the wind energy
plant carrying the rotor blade. The objective to provide a rotor blade which has a high efficiency even at safe prevention of collisions of the blade tip with the
tower of the wind energy
plant, and in which the moments around the longitudinal blade axis occurring in the operation are reduced, is resolved by the invention in that the first surface runs along an imaginary cone plane in the region of the second longitudinal portion, which is spanned up by a rotation, taking place in the operation, of the first surface in the region of the second longitudinal portion around the
rotational axis of a rotor carrying the rotor blade, wherein the cone plane intersects the
reference plane in an angle, and that the distance between the first surface and the
reference plane along the second longitudinal portion increases linearly in the direction towards the blade tip, and that the second longitudinal portion is longer than the first longitudinal portion. In addition, the present invention is related to a wind energy
plant.