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A wind turbine collapsed Wednesday morning at the North Fork Ridge Wind Farm in Barton County, but no one was hurt and utility officials say the collapse hasn’t affected electricity generation ahead of a winter cold snap. Liberty officials said in a written release that the incident, reported to them at 9:20 a.m. Wednesday, occurred just off Missouri Highway 126 and Route O in Barton County.

According to Logan County, Colorado, Emergency Manager Jerry Casebolt, several departments including Sterling and Peetz Fire were called to the scene after the failure was reported between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m., finding the tower twisted and folded over in half, with the generator burning on the ground and billowing black smoke.

Firefighters from Peetz and Crook were called to the site near Peetz between 8 and 9 a.m. Thursday after one of the turbines apparently collapsed and caught fire. Logan County, Emergency Manager Jerry Casebolt told the Journal-Advocate word he heard at the scene was that the tower collapsed first and then caught fire.

A report delivered to the corporation in June 2022 from Montreal-based DNV Canada cited turbine blades with a "severe degree of damage or defect such that there is a high risk of imminent failure." DNV also concluded some of the turbines themselves had failed or missing components, representing "a critical impact to the operation of the turbine and/or a safety hazard."

One of the wind turbines in Hermanville, P.E.I., had two of its blades completely torn off as powerful winds raged across the province this week. The tower of the turbine known as Tower 9 is also damaged, and staff with the Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action are investigating.

In what will be a dramatic shift for the Gloucester skyline, Applied Materials Inc. on Dory Road is decommissioning its towering wind turbine and taking it down. This after one of the turbine’s three 160-foot-long blades tumbled straight down to the ground and snapped in two sometime overnight on Sunday, July 31, 2022. ...The formerly 492-foot wind turbine, measured from its base to the top of its fully outstretched blades — the others were removed last November &amp...

Authorities have found a critical structural failure in one of the busiest bridges in Rhode Island and have closed its westbound side to begin a repair job expected to take months. The Rhode Island Department of Transportation said Monday evening that a “critical failure of some original 1960s bridge components” was located in the bridge. All westbound lanes will be closed and traffic diverted at first, the agency said.

The collapse of a wind turbine in China has prompted a state authority to order a daylong shutdown of projects in the region to tackle safety failings. The Xinjiang Supervision Office of China’s National Energy Administration issued the notice on 3 November following the collapse of a turbine being constructed by China Power Construction Barkol New Energy Co. during electrical installation work. The company is reportedly developing a 600MW wind farm using 7.15MW turbi...

The fire eventually spread to the cornfields below. That created a giant plume of smoke that spread north toward Interstate 80. The smoke was visible for miles. "I was coming home at like the Dexter Exit, Redfield, like 10 miles from here, you can see the smoke everywhere," said Amy Budd, who lives nearby.

It is the second breakage at the Alfstedt-Ebersdorf project, where a similar incident occurred in September last year. Energie Kontor repaired and recommissioned the broken turbine on that occassion but the cause has yet to be determined, the company said. A spokesperson added: "At the moment, it cannot yet be determined that the two damages were generated by the same cause."