Utility sues GE over turbine failures
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:30:10
Utility giant AEP has filed suit over turbine failures at a sprawling wind power project in Oklahoma. Only a few years after a $2 billion Oklahoma wind project started producing power, hundreds of turbines are having mechanical failures, pitting the large utility against a major U.S. turbine maker. The owner of the the 1,484-megawatt wind project, utility giant American Electric Power, is suing General Electric Renewables North America over turbine generators at three wind farms collectively known as North Central . . .
Fort Indiantown Gap has won a five-year battle against a proposed wind turbine project in Hegins, Schuylkill County. Philadelphia-based project developer Doral Renewables LLC was collaborating with Schuylkill County–based Rausch Creek Land L.P., which owns the land, to construct an 88-turbine, 175-megawatt wind farm at the location, which is about 15 miles from the military installation. However, the land needed for the project was in proximity to where military personnel conduct helicopter training exercises. That led Fort Indiantown Gap officials . . .
The state of Iowa is suing a Washington-state company and its executives for allegedly dumping tons of old wind-turbine blades around Iowa, in violation of the state’s solid-waste laws. The lawsuit alleges that over the past seven years, Global Fiberglass Solutions has failed to properly dispose of decommissioned wind-turbine blades and stockpiled them at multiple locations across Iowa. The lawsuit, filed in Iowa District Court for Jasper County, seeks payment of civil penalties and a court injunction to prevent any . . .
Proposals to expand planned wind farm sites off the Devon and Cornwall coast could devastate the fishing industry, fishermen have warned. It comes after the Crown Estate, which owns the sea bed, published its latest map of potential development zones. It includes thousands of square miles off Land’s End and the Isles of Scilly, currently prime fishing grounds, and an expanded zone off north Devon. The Crown Estate said it would be seeking views “from across industry and marine stakeholders” . . .
A blade has sheared off one of the wind turbines in the Red Barn project between Fennimore & Montfort, Wisconsin. The exact location is on Annaton Road near Preston in Wingville Township. According to a neighbor, “Sounds like it was hit by lightning last night around 10:30 and blade fell this afternoon around 2 but not confirmed.”
One of the modern Service Operations Vessels designed specifically to service offshore wind farms was involved in an incident yesterday, September 19. There were no injuries to the crew and technicians aboard but the vessel struck one of the turbines resulting in damage to both the vessel and the base of the turbine. The SOV is the Wind of Hope, the second of two SOVs built for French company Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) by the Cemre Shipyard in Turkey. The . . .
[For the second time in three years, a rotor blade from a wind turbine in Svartnäsparken has fallen to the ground.] För andra gången på tre år har ett rotorblad från ett vindkraftverk i Svartnäsparken fallit till marken. Verket är nu avstängt och området avspärrat för undersökning. – Det är stora maskiner, det går snett ibland, säger Hans Carlsson, vice vd för vindkraftbolaget Arise och ansvarig för driftfrågor. Det skadade vindkraftverket står norr om Lumsheden och är ett av 32 . . .
As the Viking Energy wind farm and interconnector are officially activated, retired teacher Frank Hay, the chair of Sustainable Shetland – the campaign group that has been opposing the wind farm project for more than 15 years – reflects on how this was achieved and at what cost. After more than 20 years of discussion and planning we now have the predicted industrialisation of a significant area of the Central Mainland of Shetland. Many in the community did not think . . .
Around 1690 when Nantucket Island’s English settlers first ventured out in pursuit of the right whale, they didn’t have to go very far. As author Nathaniel Philbrick describes, “Every autumn, hundreds of right whales converged to the south of the island and remained until the early spring. Right whales—so named because they were “the right whale to kill”—grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of . . .
Farmers have warned of the ‘massive catastrophic disturbance’ a proposed windfarm could do to their businesses. Landowners fear the planned Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind project could cause irreversible damage to ‘the most productive land in the country’. “I think it’s an absolute sacrilege to be using Grade-I land for these purposes,” Jenny Pennington, of Spalding Marsh’s H. Pennington & Sons, told an open floor hearing on Thursday (October 10). The Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind project wants to build a 1.5 . . .
Residents have shared their concerns with developers about the impact a wind farm project will have on their community. Ossian is developing a floating offshore wind farm off Scotland’s east coast to generate renewable energy which could be delivered to the National Grid at two new substations in Weston Marsh, near Spalding, and Alford near Skegness. An information session held in Moulton Seas End Village Hall by Ossian allowed residents to find out more about the project and how it . . .
An excavator this week took aim at a pile of wind turbine blades in a vacant lot, knocking one enormous segment to the earth, where it landed with a boom. Workers wrapped ropes around the thing, lifted it into the air and lowered it slowly onto the bed of a semi trailer truck. Then a trucker hauled it away, kicking up dust as the vehicle rumbled down a gravel road. It was a sight this small community south of Rochester . . .