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Ocean Winds trials AI technology at floating pilot to boost offshore wind safety

Ocean Winds has installed artificial intelligence (AI) software at a flagship floating wind pilot pr...

Siemens Gamesa paid £2 million to engineer after arm ‘guillotined’ by offshore wind turbine

Siemens Gamesa has paid £2 million (€2.3 million) to an engineer who lost his arm while checking one...

Engineer sues Siemens Gamesa after arm 'guillotined' in offshore wind accident

The High Court in London ruled that Siemens Gamesa’s breaches of duty led to an engineer losing his ...

Danish authorities demand safety changes after fatal blast at turbine tower factory

Danish safety regulators have demanded safety improvements at a tower factory where one worker was k...

Is safety in offshore wind a hostage to profitability?

Global offshore wind deployment is happening in greater volumes, at an increasingly frenetic pace bu...

Safety improving at UK onshore wind farms despite ‘tragic’ death – report

The number of safety-related incidents at onshore wind farms in the UK decreased in 2022, according ...

Offshore wind injuries decline but near-misses rise in busiest year yet – report

Offshore wind companies reported a declining rate of construction, or maintenance-related injuries i...

Machine-learning could see wind projects built faster and more safely

A firm has launched a machine-learning tool for the renewables industry which it claims will help pr...

Construction paused at Australian wind farm after reports of safety concerns

Construction work has paused at the 800MW Clarke Creek wind farm in eastern Australia for a second t...

Workers put at risk from ‘machine hazards’ in US wind tower parts factory

A components supplier for wind turbine giants faces a nearly $300,000 fine after it continued to ign...

Nordex investigation finds cause of collapsed turbine in Germany

Investigators have concluded that weak points in the pre-stressed concrete part of a hybrid tower ca...

German wind farm to be dismantled after structural damage detected

The Jüchen A 44n wind farm, in Germany, is to be dismantled and a new wind farm built on the sa...

Twelve dead after storm sinks floating crane working on wind farms off China

Twelve bodies have been found after a typhoon sank a floating crane vessel installing offshore wind ...

Record offshore wind activity but injury rate low - report

2021 was a record year for offshore wind activity, according to the G+ Global Offshore Wind Health a...

Offshore wind turbine catches fire at Horns Rev 1

Developers Vattenfall and Ørsted are analysing why Vestas’ V80-2.0MW turbine caught fire at the Dani...

Avangrid investigates turbine fire at Pennsylvania wind farm

The fire at the Locust Ridge wind farm in Pennsylvania follows a blaze in December 2020 and at least...

Vestas halts 150 turbines following blade investigation - updated

Vestas aims to get 150 of its V150 turbines up and running again by the middle of the year after pau...

Exclusive: Vestas deploys remotely operated blade-correcting installation tool

Vestas has started using a new remotely operated blade installation tool that removes the need for h...

Fires at wind farms 'underreported over fears of reputational damage'

Poor data and lack of rigorous and transparent reporting around blazes raise concerns operators are ...

MHI Vestas aims to make installations safer and faster through new partnership

MHI Vestas has contracted Australian engineers Verton to provide solutions to to make offshore wind ...

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