Components of a NEG wind turbine on Sunday fell right into a forest space within the wind farm Hainhaus-Dangerous König in Germany’s Hesse state.
Nobody was damage.
Based on present findings, two meeting flaps and all three hole covers of the three wind turbine blades fell to the bottom for but unknown causes, native police stated.
Operator WHS Enertec confirmed to Recharge that the incident occurred at a V82-1.5MW mannequin. The older mannequin is from NEG Micon, a wind turbine producer which merged with Vestas greater than 20 years in the past. The turbine has not been underneath Vestas’ service for over ten years.
“Late on Sunday morning … walkers reported suspicious noises and observations of a wind turbine that was nonetheless rotating within the Hainhaus/Dangerous-König-Kimbach wind farm space,” the police stated its report.
“Bigger parts have been additionally mendacity beneath the system on the bottom and within the adjoining forest space.”
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The police and fireplace brigade have been instantly dispatched to shut the adjoining forest paths and a close-by state street. The turbine was switched off by a technician and shut down because it couldn’t be dominated out that different parts would come unfastened from the machine.
Technicians are being despatched to the positioning of the particles at present to find out the doable reason behind the injury, the police stated.
Christian Schmale from WHS was quoted as saying on ARD that he suspects that “unfastened elements within the rotation led to the injury” on the 20-year-old turbine.
“One of these defect has really occurred for the primary time.”
UPDATES so as to add affirmation that incident occurred at a legacy NEG wind turbine, not Vestas.
