LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]



Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Power company blade repair continues at local project 

Credit:  Brenda Battel, Tribune Staff Writer | Huron Daily Tribune | Saturday, January 14, 2017 | www.michigansthumb.com ~~

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP – Algonquin Power officials say the Deerfield Wind Energy Project should be commissioned in a couple more weeks.

Two blades broke on separate turbines in the wind park this fall.

Officials at a recent Huron County Planning Commission meeting discussed the repair issue.

Commission Chairman Clark Brock, who lives near the operation, noted that not all turbines were turning.

Officials also said Algonquin Power personnel were working late hours over the Christmas holiday to get the turbines up and running.

Brock added that they were trying to figure out whether “the blades can be trusted with minor repairs.”

Alison Holditch, an Algonquin spokesperson, said this was not the case.

“The repair integrity is not in question,” she wrote in an email to the Tribune. “The necessary repair is cleared through Vestas’ robust quality process by qualified engineers and once repaired, the blade is safe to operate as normal.”

The two blades broke in half and dangled from their towers near the intersection of Redman and Iseler roads in October.

Lack of adhesive was discovered to be the problem, according to officials from park owner Algonquin of Ontario, Canada, and wind turbine manufacturer Vestas.

Fifty blades in the 72-turbine park shared the flaw.

Algonquin officials have recently clarified that they do not consider the blades to be defective, but that they share a “manufacturing anomaly that required repairs to be made.”

In December, Algonquin officials had said that they expected the operation to be online by year’s end.

Now they are saying it will be a couple more weeks.

“The commissioning activities at Deerfield, including the limited number of blade repairs, are still underway, and are impacted by weather and wind speeds,” Holditch wrote.

Source:  Brenda Battel, Tribune Staff Writer | Huron Daily Tribune | Saturday, January 14, 2017 | www.michigansthumb.com

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share

Tag: Accidents


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon