GE Renewable Energy is investigating the cause of a blade failure at the 175MW Bjorkvattnet wind farm in Sweden.
A spokesperson for GE Renewable Energy the blade failure occurred on 31 August.
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“There were no injuries. In partnership with our customer, we have secured the site, informed local authorities, and are analysing the root cause of this event,” he said.
Bjorkvattnet, which is located approximately 470km north of Stockholm, comprises 33 of GE’s 5.3MW Cypress machines.
The project supplies power to Google under a power purchase agreement signed in 2019.
It was developed by Vindparken and WindSpace, with support from GE Renewable Energy, and sold to InfraVia European Fund IV, managed by private equity firm InfraVia Capital Partners.