The project aims to reduce human intervention and decision-making in evaluating blade damage and to minimize or eliminate turbine downtime during external blade inspections. Sabato and Niezrecki were ...

TNO and its partners developed an ‘erosion atlas’, which predicts where and when rain will damage wind turbine blades and cause LEE. For the study, dedicated rain sensors – disdrometers of the types ...

T he same Vineyard Wind turbine whose blade malfunctioned last summer, ... Like the July incident, that notification came a ...

Wind turbines in the North Sea face extreme weather conditions that cause erosion to the turbine blades. The PROWESS research, led by TNO, shows that a substantial part of the damage to offshore wind ...

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Vineyard Wind has resumed installing turbine blades at its offshore wind farm south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, months after a turbine broke and cast debris into the ocean.

Workers help transport an offshore wind turbine blade before it is stacked on top of another at Vineyard Wind on June 8, 2023, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. (Raquel C. Zaldívar/New England News ...

Nantucket beaches were shut down to swimming on Tuesday after a Vineyard Wind offshore wind turbine broke and beachgoers began finding debris from the blade damage incident.

Vineyard Wind announced it is launching recovery teams in Nantucket on Tuesday to survey southern-facing beaches for debris from a wind turbine damage incident. The turbine blade was damaged on ...

Vineyard Wind said Thursday that a “significant part” of the damaged turbine fell into the waters and may lead to more debris appearing on Nantucket’s beaches in the coming days.

The same Vineyard Wind turbine whose blade malfunctioned last summer, ... Like the July incident, that notification came a few days after the lightning strike inflicted damage on the AW-38 turbine.