Wind (onshore) incidents recorded in Brazil, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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Wind Power Monthly reported on 28 October 2025 that a worker had died after a wind turbine caught fire in southern Brazil. The available text does not give the site, the operator, the date of the fire, or how the fire and the death occurred.
On Sunday 30 January 2022 a Siemens Gamesa wind turbine collapsed at the 49.3MW Arizona onshore wind project in Rio do Fogo, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The collapse included the turbine's third section. Siemens Gamesa said the customer was notified...
A GE 2.72-116 wind turbine collapsed at Omega Energia's Delta VI wind project in Maranhao, north-east Brazil, on 3 September 2019. Three GE employees were on site at the time of the collapse and one worker was injured, receiving medical treatment afterwards....
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A GE 1.7-103 wind turbine collapsed at the 216MW Ventos de São Clemente wind complex in Pernambuco state, northeastern Brazil. According to a local journalist, a blade detached from the turbine during extreme winds, causing the machine to lose stability...
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