Vineyard Wind claims GE owes $800 million for years of delays and impacts from the catastrophic blade failure in 2024.

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The project was a boondoggle from the beginning. The state of Massachusetts should share blame for the blade failure.

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The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, a quasi-state agency, built the Wind Technology Testing Center in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Blade manufacturers and contractors were required to test turbine blades for compliance with international design standards to ensure reliability and manage risk. 

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The blade testing was flawed and extrapolated. The test site was too small, and only one prototype blade from France was tested.

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To manufacture the GE Vernova blades for Vineyard Wind, only one "prototype" blade was tested, which was manufactured in Cherbourg, France, and sent to the MassCEC Wind Testing Facility. The test site was too small to accommodate testing the blade, so engineers cut about 50 feet off the blade tip. They went forward, testing the blade, extrapolating figures to pass the test.

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The conundrum doesn't end here. Believe it or not, most of the blades manufactured for Vineyard Wind were manufactured in Canada at a company called LM Wind Power in Gaspé. General Electric (GE) acquired LM Wind Power in 2017. 

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None of the 130 Canadian blades manufactured were tested at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center wind testing facility. In July 2024, one of the Vineyard wind blades failed, resulting in the replacement of all 130 blades made in Canada. Not even a "prototype" blade from Canada was tested.

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GE Renewable Energy had collaborated with the MassCEC Wind Technology Testing Center to test large-scale turbine blades. 

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Massachusetts tested only one blade out of hundreds.

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