An investigation is underway after a blade failure on a turbine at the 175MW Bjorkvattnet wind farm in Sweden, according to project’s asset manager OX2.
OX2 said the accident happened at 8pm on 21 July.
A spokesperson said: “A blade broke at turbine 13 in the park. No one was injured in the accident.
“We currently have a 250-metre safety perimeter around the affected turbine and have currently stopped five other turbines in the park for inspections as a part of the ongoing root cause analysis.
“GE has people on site that have initiated the root cause analysis.”
The project 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.
It comprises 33 GE 5.3MW Cypress machines.
Last year, another blade broke on a turbine at the site.
The OX2 spokesperson said that the root cause was then deemed to be an “isolated event due to a manufacturing issue with the lamination of that specific blade”.