Vineyard Wind plans to remove an unspecified number of blades from existing turbines after conducting scans and quality checks in response to a mid-July breakdown that cast debris into the ocean, company officials announced Wednesday. Officials with Vineyard Wind and GE Vernova, which manufactured the blades, said just before 6:30 a.m. Wednesday they would remove some existing blades and strengthen…

Crews started this week to retrieve and remove pieces of the shattered Vineyard Wind turbine blade that sunk to the ocean floor three months ago, a project that the company said could take as long as two weeks. Vineyard Wind sent a “mariner update” Wednesday to caution boaters, fishing outfits and anyone else on the waters that a 250-foot crane…

The turbine trouble saga that has plagued Cape Cod may finally end Thursday. For weeks, pieces of broken blade have been washing up on the shores of Nantucket. However, there’s a plan that could finally end this problem for good.

Vineyard Wind’s broken turbine blade is continuing to cause issues on Massachusetts beaches, this time on Cape Cod. Small pieces of debris like ones that have washed up on beaches in Nantucket have been seen on beaches in Chatham and Falmouth, local officials have said. Four pieces of foam the size of golf balls were found on Sunday along...

Vineyard Winds broken turbine is continuing to cause issues, with debris washing up on some beaches in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

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As Vineyard Wind deals with the fallout from the Nantucket turbine incident earlier this month, they’re in federal appeals court this morning fighting to keep their permit.

The push continues to renegotiate the Nantucket offshore wind project, which has created major concerns for residents this month.

As the cleanup and investigation continue into the Vineyard Wind incident earlier this month, and the project remains shut down, a “manufacturing deviation” is being blamed for a blade breaking off one of the turbines and sending debris onto Nantucket beaches.  “Some of the adhesives that are supposed to work for the blade did not do their job,” said GE…

Local officials and the public had a chance to grill Vineyard Wind representatives, with many expressing frustration and demanding answers on what happened and what’s being done to make sure it never happens again.

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The multi-day clean energy project failure off Massachusetts is worsening, with developers at Vineyard Wind reporting Thursday that a “significant part” of a huge, damaged and dangling wind blade has detached and dropped into the Atlantic Ocean. “This morning, a significant part of the remaining GE Vernova blade detached from the turbine,” Vineyard Wind said in a statement released at…