New England fishermen and supporters organized for a protest boat parade Sunday at Vineyard Wind’s damaged AW38 turbine southwest of Nantucket, Mass.
A GE Venova Haliade turbine suffered a blade failure Aug. 22 on the Dogger Bank A offshore wind project in the North Sea, about six weeks after a fractured blade shut down the Vineyard Wind project off southern New England.
The Dogger Bank incident is the second blade failure on that project after one in May. All three involve Haliade 13-megawatt generators, marketed by GE Vernova as an industry standard as wind developers go big in a quest for efficiency.
“We are aware of a blade failure…
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