Safety incidents, near-misses and operational failures involving wind (offshore) assets, with lessons learned.
What fails on wind turbines, onshore and offshore
Wind turbine fires and failures: the counts, the latest entries and free alerts
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An offshore wind turbine at the Greater Changhua Northwest offshore wind farm (Greater Changhua 2b and 4) suffered blade damage on 2 October. No personnel were working on the turbine at the time and no vessels were in the safety zone. No injuries or...
In 2026, a turbine at Ørsted's Greater Changhua 4 offshore wind farm off Taiwan automatically tripped after its monitoring system detected an abnormal condition. The site team subsequently observed a fire on the turbine, which was extinguished a short time...
On 22 July 2026 a blade failure was detected on one of the Vestas V236-15 turbines at EnBW's 960MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, which is currently under construction. EnBW said the relevant authorities were notified immediately....
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
RWE says it is investigating an incident on 10 June involving turbine components during loading onto a jack-up installation vessel. The components were being handled for offshore wind deployment at the Thor offshore wind farm, as part of transport and...
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...
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...
On 20 April 2025, the offshore supply vessel Glomar Venture struck the base of an offshore wind turbine in the Dutch North Sea, about 15 miles offshore from Callantsoog. Two crew members were injured. The Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution sent the...
On 27 February 2025, a GE Vernova Haliade-X 13 MW turbine (AW-38) at the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm off Massachusetts was struck by lightning. The turbine had previously suffered a blade failure in July 2024, when a blade detached and debris washed up...
A fishing vessel returning from a trip in the Yellow Sea near China collided with an offshore wind turbine, causing the vessel to sink. Reporting describes the sinking as deadly, indicating one or more fatalities, though the exact number was not specified. An...
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...
In July 2024, a recently installed turbine at the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project, located south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States, suffered a blade failure during early testing. The turbine had been running for about six...
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,...
The export cable running from the Rentel offshore wind farm platform to the Belgian mainland was reported damaged. The 309 MW wind farm continued to feed electricity into the grid through an alternative route via the Modular Offshore Grid offshore power hub,...
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...
In July 2024, a turbine blade at an offshore wind project in North America failed during the commissioning phase. A section of the blade detached and debris was distributed across a wide marine and coastal area. The turbine was undergoing testing at the time...
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...
On 24 April 2023 a general cargo ship, later identified as the Antigua-flagged Petra L, collided with a wind turbine at Ørsted's Gode Wind 1 offshore wind farm in the North Sea, about 33 km off the German islands of Juist and Norderney. The vessel sustained a...
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