On 10 June 2026, the wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Brave Tern, owned by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier, struck Cadeler's vessel Wind Keeper, a shore crane and a pier while manoeuvring in high winds at the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark. The vessel had just...
Energy incidents: Denmark
Incidents recorded in Denmark across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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In April 2024, a blade fragment reported as around 25 metres in length detached from an onshore wind turbine in Denmark and came to rest more than 100 metres from the turbine base, close to a roadway. No injuries were reported. The event was recorded in a...
The rotor and all three blades separated from the nacelle of a Siemens Gamesa 3.6 MW wind turbine at the Anholt offshore wind farm off Denmark and fell into the sea. Following the incident, the operator, Orsted, requested precautionary no-sail zones around...
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On 1 January 2019 a fire broke out in a Vestas V52-850kW wind turbine located close to the city of Sorvad in Central Jutland, Denmark. Vestas said the site had been secured and the fire fully extinguished, with no injuries to people or animals recorded....
The Horns Rev 1 offshore wind farm in Denmark, rated at 160 MW, was reported by Recharge News on 4 June 2010 to have been inoperative since 28 May 2010. The article said a faulty transformer station had rendered the wind farm inoperative and that the parts...
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