Incidents and images of damage to wind energy converters  

Author:  Alt, Helmut

“According to estimates by the German insurance association, GDV, a total of € 30 million were paid in premiums for insuring the wind machines compared to almost € 45 million paid in damages for plant outages (this corresponds to around 0.3 ct/kWh).”

From “The economics of wind energy within the generation mix” (“Energiewirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Windenergie im Stromerzeugungsmix”) [click to download]