Named in a role in 31 records, and mentioned in the text of 34 entries, between 2000 and 2026.
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On 22 July 2026 a blade failure was detected on one of the Vestas V236-15 turbines at EnBW's 960MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, which is currently under construction. EnBW said the relevant authorities were notified immediately....
On 2 February 2026, an 80 metre wind turbine at the Byeolparang Park wind farm (Changpo Wind Power Complex) in Yeongdeok-eup, Yeongdeok County, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea collapsed, with the tower and blades falling across an internal road. Wind...
Repeated Vestas wind turbine failures have caused downtime at a pioneering floating offshore wind project in Scotland, with financial losses reported for the project. The extent and cost of the repair works needed have raised questions about the commercial...
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A wind turbine at Berrybank Wind Farm, around 80km south-west of Geelong in Victoria, Australia, collapsed after strong gusts and storms. The 112m tall turbine fell, with its blades broken on the ground. The site, operated by Naturgy with Vestas as service...
A wind turbine caught fire at Coldham Wind Farm, near Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire, UK. The site is operated and owned by ScottishPower Renewables, with turbines manufactured by Vestas. The incident was reported by a local news outlet in early February 2025. No...
A utility confirmed that a 19-year-old Vestas wind turbine tower in Washington State was so visibly damaged that the turbine would have to be decommissioned. The available report does not name the site, the date of the damage, or how the tower was damaged.
A Vestas V117-4.2MW wind turbine at a wind farm owned by Aneo in Norway suffered damage to two of its blades, forcing the turbine and the wider site offline. The incident was reported as the second such occurrence at the site in a matter of months, though the...
A wind turbine manufactured by Vestas caught fire during a rainstorm at Enel Green Power's 24MW Los Buenos Aires wind farm in southern Chile. The brief news report did not specify the exact turbine model, the date of the incident, or whether anyone was...
A 36-year-old worker was killed on 11 November 2024 at the Golden Plains Wind Farm near Rokewood, Victoria. According to published reporting, a wind turbine blade came loose from scaffolding during assembly and crushed him. The worker was engaged as a...
EnergyWatch reported on 28 February 2024 that a fire in a Vestas turbine in Ålesund had been extinguished. A statement attributed to Sandøy Vindkraft said the wind power plant had been launched in September or October 2023 after an upgrade. The rest of the...
A short published report says a nacelle and rotor fell off a Vestas turbine at a wind farm in Canada. The project developer was reported to have paused operations and remaining construction. The wind farm, the turbine model and the cause were not stated in...
A blade on a Vestas turbine was damaged at the Viking wind farm in the United Kingdom, one of the UK's largest onshore wind farms. Project operator SSE Renewables confirmed the damage. The available report does not give the date of the damage, the cause, the...
During 2024, publicly available industry reporting described three separate incidents at onshore wind sites in the United States (multiple sites) involving Vestas turbines of the same type, the most recent in November 2024. In each case a blade shattered or...
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...
In June 2022, turbine 43 at the Alinta Wind Farm in Walkaway, Western Australia, collapsed. The site operator, Iberdrola, launched a root cause analysis investigation, consulting its global technical team and operations and maintenance providers. Although the...
A wind turbine at Tararua Wind Farm 3 on the Tararua Range caught fire on a Wednesday afternoon in October 2021. The fire was visible from Palmerston North and Feilding. Owner Mercury was alerted by on-site contractor and operator Vestas, who said nobody was...
In October 2021 a Vestas turbine tower in phase two of the Kent Hills 1 and 2 site near Moncton, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada, collapsed because of what was identified as a bad foundation. KHLP, operator for owner TransAlta Renewables, said it found...
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...
A blade on a Vestas V150 4.2MW turbine at the Timber Road IV wind farm in Ohio suffered heavy damage in a failure on 3 September 2020. No one was injured. Vestas and EDP Renewables secured the site and conducted a site wide inspection of blades on the other...
A Vestas V150 4.2MW wind turbine collapsed in November 2020 at the Aldermyrberget wind farm in Sweden, owned by Wpd, while the site was ramping up towards full commissioning. Nobody was hurt in the incident. A subsequent investigation identified a bonding...
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