Offshore wind turbine catches fire at Ørsted Dutch farm
2021Published 16 Sept 2026Responsible editor: Chief Editor
- Where
- Dutch offshore wind farm
- Operator
- Ørsted
- Manufacturer
- Siemens Gamesa
- What
- 8 MW turbine caught fire and was pulled down
- Cause
- Not reported
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Companies named in the reporting of this entry (being named is not a finding of fault): Siemens Gamesa
What happened
Less than two months after the official inauguration of a Dutch offshore wind farm, an 8 MW Siemens Gamesa turbine caught fire and was pulled down, according to a report headed as a fire at an Ørsted farm. The available report does not name the farm, the date of the fire, the cause, any injuries, or the response.
Contributing factors
Not reported.
Lessons learned
- An offshore wind turbine fire less than two months after inauguration led to the turbine being pulled down, so operators must keep a tested isolation and removal plan ready for early-life events.
- When the cause of a Siemens Gamesa turbine fire remains unknown, operators and the supplier must preserve and share site evidence before further work.
- An early-life fire on an 8 MW offshore turbine prompts a full review of commissioning and fire-detection checks on the same machines.
More lessons on electrical protection and isolation, investigation and fleet-wide checks, detection and monitoring, from every incident on the register.
Not yet known
- Name of the wind farm
- Date of the fire
- Injuries if any
- Response details and duration
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Source
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Published 2026-09-16. Written from public reporting. Descriptive, not investigative. See the data accuracy disclaimer.
