Wind (offshore) incidents recorded in the United Kingdom, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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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...
During 2025, a turbine at an offshore wind farm in the United Kingdom was reported to have been damaged by fire and to be undergoing removal from the site. The date of the fire, its cause, the extent of damage and whether anyone was injured have not been...
On the morning of 22 August 2024 a blade failure occurred on a large multi-megawatt turbine at Dogger Bank A, an offshore wind farm under construction in the North Sea, United Kingdom. It was the second blade failure at the same project in 2024, following an...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
In May 2024, a blade on an installed turbine at Dogger Bank A, an offshore wind farm under construction in the North Sea off the coast of England, United Kingdom, sustained damage. The Dogger Bank Wind Farm consortium, the project's owner and operator,...
A technician was transferring on foot from a service operations vessel to a transition piece at Dogger Bank Wind Farm, off the north-east coast of England, using a telescopic walk-to-work gangway about 25 to 30 metres above the sea. The gangway is reported to...
Trade press reported that a Siemens Gamesa wind turbine was damaged at Orsted's Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the North Sea, United Kingdom, after a service operation vessel collided with it. The report is limited to a headline and summary behind...
An offshore wind turbine caught fire at North Denes Beach in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on Tuesday 15 August 2023. Smoke could be seen more than 10 miles away. A member of the public walking nearby saw the smoke during the day, noted that no service vessels appeared...
On 15 August 2023 a fire broke out in the nacelle of turbine T06 at the Scroby Sands offshore wind farm, situated about 1.5 miles off the coast of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. The blaze produced thick black smoke visible from Lowestoft and other nearby coastal...
A Windpower Monthly report states that the High Court in London ruled that Siemens Gamesa's breaches of duty led to an engineer losing his arm while working on a wind farm in the North Sea. The text available to the register does not name the wind farm, give...
In late December, a section of one turbine blade at Humber Gateway, 8 km off Holderness, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom, detached and fell into the sea. A Notice to Mariners issued on 8 January said the section, about 20 metres long, was unaccounted for and...
On 15 October 2021, during a planned major component exchange at the Ormonde offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, about 10 km off Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom, a turbine hub, blades and a clamping tool fell into the sea. The work was being carried out...
Five people were injured overnight on 8 May 2020 while working aboard the Seaway Strashnov, an installation vessel operated by Seaway Heavy Lifting, at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm construction site about 32 kilometres off the Lincolnshire coast, UK....
In 2018, an engineer lost most of an arm while repairing a turbine blade at a Siemens Gamesa offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Reporting of a later court case said he had started the work believing the power was off, and that a blade sliced through his...
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