The turbine blade broke on July 13 and left potentially dangerous debris on beaches on the island of Nantucket
Power services firm GE Vernova on Wednesday said a manufacturing flaw led to a turbine blade failure at the Vineyard Wind offshore project off the coast of Massachusetts earlier this month.
The incident is a blow to both Vineyard Wind, the first major U.S. offshore wind farm, and the nation’s budding offshore wind industry. The sector is regarded as critical to meeting U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate change goals but has been struggling with soaring costs and delays. The manufacturing problem with the Vineyard Wind turbine blade is different from another turbine blade break earlier this year at the Dogger Bank project in Britain, GE Vernova said, which was the result of an installation failure.
GE Vernova, which became an independent company in April following a three-way split of General Electric, on Wednesday also reported a 1% rise in second-quarter revenue to $8.2 billion, compared with a year earlier.Electric utilities across the world are looking to increase their power generating capacity and lifting the usage of renewable energy to meet emission goals, driving demand for equipment suppliers such as GE Vernova.
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