Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The recent spate of offshore wind turbine blade failures should be a wake-up call for both the industry and our policymakers.

NANTUCKET, MASS. (WHDH) - The failure off Nantucket is just the latest incident involving wind turbines, with the mishaps now renewing talks about safety. Earlier this year, 7 Investigates uncovered a ...

For the first time, analyst company TGS 4C has predicted the future of turbines. In short: they will fail. In the next 15 years, the industry worldwide should expect almost 34,000 failures – and ...

The reliability of GE Vernova’s offshore wind turbines is being called in question yet again after another blade failure was announced thousands of miles away from Nantucket, in Dogger Bank, U.K. last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As investigations continue into last month's collapse of a football field-sized blade on one of Vineyard Wind's turbines, another ...

WHAT’S BLAMED FOR THE FAILURE. MATT. WELL, ANTOINETTE VINEYARD WIND BELIEVES A MANUFACTURING MISSTEP RESULTED IN THIS WIND TURBINE BLADE FAILING. NEW IMAGES THIS MORNING SHOW THAT DAMAGED BLADE ABOUT ...

Encouraging results from recent up-tower testing at a wind farm in Oregon indicate that the conductive-microfiber bearing protection ring is preventing generator bearing damage. Designed by the ...

Two explosions have ripped apart a Lal Lal wind turbine about 20km southeast of Ballarat. Neighbours, who heard two ...

Wind turbines are complex electromechanical systems that operate under highly variable environmental loads and remote conditions. Failures can occur across blades, gearboxes, bearings, generators and ...

Offshore turbine with a broken blade at Vineyard Wind 1, about 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, earlier this week. Pieces of fiberglass and foam have washed up on Nantucket, Tuckernuck and ...