Wind (offshore) incidents recorded in Germany, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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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 24 April 2023 a general cargo ship, later identified as the Antigua-flagged Petra L, collided with a wind turbine at Ørsted's Gode Wind 1 offshore wind farm in the North Sea, about 33 km off the German islands of Juist and Norderney. The vessel sustained a...
On 2 May 2020 the crane on the offshore installation vessel Orion collapsed during load tests at the Liebherr yard in Rostock harbour, Germany. The vessel, owned by Cosco Offshore and operated by Deme, was under construction, moored at the quayside, and was...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A crew transfer vessel, the Njord Forseti, allided with a wind turbine at the Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm, operated and owned by Orsted, in the German North Sea, approximately 45 kilometres north of the island of Borkum. Three people on board were...
EnergyWatch reported that a monopile wind turbine foundation weighing 800 tons, intended for the Hornsea 1 offshore wind farm, crashed down onto the quay at the Port of Rostock. The report is a short lead only. It does not say when the crash happened, how the...
A diver was killed during construction of the 108MW Riffgat wind farm in the German North Sea, which is being built by EWE and Enova. According to reports, the diver was working on concrete bases designed to tie cables down to the seabed. The incident...
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