Newly inaugurated turbine pulled down after fire at Dutch Ørsted offshore wind farm
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Provisional entry. Confirmed: an 8MW Siemens Gamesa turbine at an Ørsted offshore wind farm in the Netherlands caught fire and was taken down shortly after the farm's inauguration in 2021. Not yet known: the wind farm name, the date and cause of the fire, and whether there were any injuries, as the source article is paywalled. Next update: 18 September 2026.
An 8MW Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbine caught fire at a Dutch offshore wind farm owned by Ørsted less than two months after the farm's official inauguration, according to a trade press report dated 28 October 2021. The report says the machine was subsequently pulled down. The wind farm is not named in the available text, and the date of the fire, the cause, the emergency response and whether anyone was hurt are not reported.
Not reported.
- Turbines can suffer serious fire damage within weeks of entering service, so early-life monitoring and alarm response should not be relaxed after commissioning.
- Offshore fires frequently end in loss of the machine because firefighting access is limited, which puts the emphasis on prevention and on detection and isolation systems.
- A fire soon after handover is a prompt to review commissioning records and quality assurance on sister units at the same site.
Published 2026-09-16. Written from public reporting. Descriptive, not investigative. See the data accuracy disclaimer.