Wind (onshore) incidents recorded in Germany, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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In the night to Sunday, which local reporting gives as 25 October 2026, a wind turbine collapsed and fell onto two fields in Weeze, in the Kreis Kleve district of Germany, according to a local report by NRZ. The report says that much about the incident...
Overnight, reported by police on 16 October 2026, the trailer of a heavy-load transporter left a gravel forest track near the Hohe Molmert wind park, near Plettenberg in the Märkischer Kreis, Germany. The trailer was carrying a wind turbine blade weighing...
At about 14:00 on Sunday 5 July 2026, a rotor blade became detached from a wind turbine at the Waldhausen wind farm at Aalen-Waldhausen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The blade fell to the ground directly beneath the turbine. Statkraft, which operates the...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On Sunday 14 June 2026, the nacelle of a wind turbine at Bönen, near the boundary with Hamm in North Rhine-Westphalia, caught fire at a height of about 95 metres. One of the turbine's 45-metre rotor blades also burned, and the cladding of the nacelle burned...
On the evening of Saturday 23 May 2026, a wind turbine more than 100 metres high between Repperndorf and Biebelried, near Kitzingen in Bavaria, caught fire beside the A7 motorway. Several road users reported heavy smoke from the turbine, and fire services...
On Wednesday 18 March 2026, at about 09:00, a rotor blade roughly 60 metres long and weighing about 15 tonnes broke off a Senvion wind turbine at the Bürgerwindpark Berching, in the Neumarkt district of the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. The blade fell...
In the early hours of Monday 30 March 2026, at about 00:45, the nacelle of a wind turbine beside the road between Crostwitz and Sibnitz in the Bautzen district of Saxony, Germany, was fully on fire. The turbine was about 25 years old, was not in operation and...
On the morning of Monday 2 February 2026, the nacelle of a wind turbine at the Bürgerwindpark Fehmarn caught fire at a height of about 99 metres. The community wind farm on the island of Fehmarn in Schleswig-Holstein has seven turbines and has been in...
Two 32-year-old workers died after a work basket they were in fell from the upper part of a wind turbine under construction in Birstein, northeast of Frankfurt, Germany. The incident occurred on a Wednesday morning, according to police cited by the German...
On the morning of Wednesday 7 January 2026, a rotor blade on a Nordex wind turbine at the Bedburg A44n wind farm, beside the A44 motorway at the Jackerath interchange near the Garzweiler lignite mine in North Rhine-Westphalia, broke and hung at a dangerous...
At about 13:00 on New Year's Day 2026 a fire broke out in the nacelle, the machine house, of a wind turbine at Süttorf near Neetze in the Lüneburg district of Lower Saxony, Germany. The turbine is about 100 metres high and more than 20 years old. The Ostheide...
On a Monday evening a wind turbine on a dike in the municipality of Simonsberg, Kreis Nordfriesland, on the North Sea coast, caught fire. Emergency services were called and the fire was extinguished. The turbine was reported out of operation afterwards. The...
On 27 October the upper tower segment of an N149/4.X turbine at the 13.5MW Herkentrup wind farm in Coesfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, fell to the ground together with the nacelle, hub and blades. The damage was found in the morning. All necessary safety...
A wind turbine at a wind farm operated by EnBW in Germany reportedly caught fire, destroying the nacelle and a rotor blade, with debris falling to the ground. The exact site, date and cause have not yet been reported.
In September 2024 a maintenance worker was killed at an onshore wind turbine in Germany after being struck by a falling blade during routine maintenance work. The publicly available information comes from a consolidated industry compilation of wind sector...
A turbine at the Stemwede Bürgerwindpark in North Rhine-Westphalia caught fire early on Tuesday 4 July 2023. The local fire brigade said the operator had already tried to put the fire out and had shut the turbine down. Crews then secured the site and checked...
A report published on 6 July 2023 said a wind turbine had snapped and collapsed into a field in north-west Germany. The operator was reported to have blamed a strong, very sudden gust for the damage. The text that could be read does not name the site, the...
A published headline reported that a wind turbine collapsed after a wind gust in Rostock, Germany, and that video of the collapse had circulated. The article text could not be retrieved, so the site, the operator, any injuries and the exact cause are not...
A wind turbine in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, was filmed snapping and collapsing onto a field, with blade fragments scattered on the ground. Reporting citing Norddeutscher Rundfunk said residents had heard unusual noises since a thunderstorm about a week...
GE Renewable Energy was reported to have suffered a blade failure at one of its GE 5.3-158 Cypress wind turbines in Germany. The report said the same model had already had a similar incident at a wind farm in Sweden the previous year. The site, the date of...
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