Incidents from 2009 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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Newest incident first. Search them, or narrow them by country, year or severity. Each entry is free to read, with what happened and its sources; the record behind it adds the cause where it is established, the part that failed, the downtime and the loss.
A technician employed by Siemens died at the Causeymire wind farm in Scotland on 16 September 2009 during a warranty inspection of turbine 18. Four people were in the nacelle, two from Siemens and two from RWE. While an RWE engineer was pitching the rotor...
In December 2009 a 187-ton wind turbine toppled at the Fenner Wind Farm in Madison County. By 22 June 2010 investigators had not established why it fell. The farm's 20 turbines had been switched off since the collapse while the owner, Enel North America,...
A local news headline reported that a wind turbine collapsed in Clinton County. The available report is the headline and dateline only. The article body was not available, so the exact site, operator, cause, injuries and extent of damage were not reported.
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A 65 ft blade detached from a wind turbine at the Conisholme wind farm, operated by Ecotricity, in Lincolnshire after bolts attaching it to the hub failed. The incident initially attracted public attention because local residents reported seeing glowing...
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