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Vestas launches standalone blade maintenance company

Danish turbine giant Vestas today (14 December) announced it is launching BladeRobots, a standalone ...

How can the wind industry close its ‘workforce gap’?

More than two thirds (68%) of wind industry employers have had “some or great difficulty” locating q...

France’s first commercial offshore wind farm fully operational

After a decade of delays, the 480MW Saint-Nazaire wind farm - off the coast of France - is now fully...

Two dead after wind blade truck overturns in South America

Two people died after a truck carrying a wind turbine blade overturned on a highway in Brazil in the...

Vestas onshore turbine ‘engulfed in flames’ in US

US developer MidAmerican is investigating the cause of a Vestas V110-2.0 turbine that caught fire on...

Ukraine’s DTEK chief: 'The more pressure Russia puts on us, the more we will resist'

Maksim Timchenko, the CEO of Ukrainian developer DTEK, has given a defiant interview in which he sai...

Polish power company moves forward with planned O&M base

PGE Group will build an operation and maintenance base for its offshore wind farms in Ustka harbour ...

GE ‘confident’ design-around for Haliade-X will not impact performance

GE Renewable Energy is “confident” that the design-around for the disputed Haliade-X turbine, unveil...

Ukrainian developer: ‘Half our wind farms are under occupation’

In an online press conference today (13/10) which was delayed by an air strike, Maxim Timchenko, chi...

Vestas plans Polish offshore wind factory

Vestas plans to build a new factory in north-west Poland where it will assemble nacelles and hubs fo...

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...

Stiesdal Offshore partners with Maersk Supply Services for floating wind

Danish floating wind specialist Stiesdal Offshore has teamed up with compatriot marine contractor Ma...

Nordex blames Welsh wind turbine collapse on ‘overspeed condition’

A Nordex turbine collapsed at a Welsh wind farm earlier this year after running in an “overspeed con...

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...

Video: Newly waterproof robot ‘to cut wind turbine blade O&M costs’

Technology developer BladeBug has revealed a new-look robot concept covered in a waterproof outer sh...

Video: Senvion turbine catches fire in UK city

A Senvion wind turbine installed at an industrial site caught fire this morning sending “acrid black...

Video: Vestas turbine catches fire at UK onshore wind farm

Ventient Energy is investigating after a Vestas turbine caught fire at one of its wind farms in sout...

Video: GE turbine catches fire after lightning strike at Texas onshore wind farm

Innergex has launched an investigation after a GE turbine caught fire after being struck by lightnin...

GE probes new blade failure at Google-contracted Swedish onshore wind farm

GE is investigating after a blade became partially detached from one of its Cypress turbines at a wi...

Nordex turbine collapses at new RWE wind farm in Sweden

RWE is investigating a turbine collapse at its newly commissioned 475MW Nysäter project in central S...