Named in a role in 6 records, between 2018 and 2023.
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A wind turbine in a field in Adair County, Iowa, near Stuart, was destroyed by fire. The fire, which began on the morning of 17 October 2023, consumed the nacelle, and one blade fell to the ground. The fire spread to nearby cornfields and produced a large...
Firefighters responded at 12:39 a.m. on 24 October to a rural address south of Interstate 80 near Williamsburg, Iowa. On arrival they found a wind turbine with its head fully engulfed. Flaming debris caused a secondary fire in the surrounding field. The...
MidAmerican Energy halted 46 turbines at its Beaver Creek wind farm in Greene County, Iowa, on 15 October 2020 after a turbine blade broke away and fell into a harvested field. This was the fourth blade failure the utility experienced since October 2019, all...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A letter to the editor in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier reports that a blade from a wind turbine in Adair County, Iowa, separated and was found in a cornfield. The letter cites a KCCI-TV report made before 18 September 2020 and describes the blade as 177...
A fire broke out at about 9:30pm on a Thursday night in a wind turbine at the Beaver Creek Wind Farm, north of Beaver in Boone County, Iowa. The fire was reported by a nearby homeowner. Volunteer fire departments responded but could not fight the fire...
In July 2018, a spokesperson for Blattner Energy said a crane operator had died in an accident at the North English wind farm construction site in Poweshiek County, Iowa, where the company was building wind turbines for MidAmerican Energy. The specifics of...
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