The broken wind turbine near Nantucket was ‘highly unusual and rare.’ But it wasn’t the firstElla Nilsen, CNNJuly 20, 2024 at 12:00 PMThe massive offshore wind turbine blade that broke and spread fiberglass and foam debris across Nantucket beaches this week was one of several recent failures of blades made by GE Vernova – a top US wind turbine manufacturer.Several GE Vernova blades have broken on onshore and offshore turbines in Germany, Sweden, Lithuania and the United Kingdom in recent years. The broken blades were a variety of different sizes and types, and the company’s investigations revealed there were different root…
