Vineyard Wind 351 Foot Blades A Catastrophic Mistake

Vineyard Wind 351 Foot Blades A Catastrophic Mistake 
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The Biden-Harris administration set a goal of 30 gigawatts offshore wind by 2030. 
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Offshore wind contractors have incentives of up to 40 percent in federal renewable energy credits and Massachusetts state incentives to reach goals for 2025 and 2030. 
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To reach these goals they had to put the cart before the horse including test procedures and the environment. 
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 LM Wind Company in Gaspee Quebec owned by General Electric was tasked with building 150 blades for Vineyard Wind.
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 A prototype hybrid blade with less carbon fiber had to be tested and certified. The test procedure was rushed and flawed. 
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The hybrid blade was never tested for a year in a rough ocean environment like the North Sea. 
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The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Wind Technology Testing Center certified and tested the prototype blade. 
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The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is a revolving door for its employees and those from offshore wind. 
"A handshake from across the street." 
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The MTTC  center could only torsion test blades up to 300 feet. Federal and state officials agreed to cut the blade in two parts. Engineers extrapolated figures ( data made up ) to certify the blade no torsion test or field tests. 
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The OK was given to manufacturing the blades at LM Wind which incidentally backed diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring.  
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On July 13, 2024, a GE Vernova blade made for Vineyard Wind broke off Nantucket dumping 50 tons of microplastics, foam, fiberglass, and balsa wood. The parts are still washing up today. 
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An investigation by GE Vernova lawyers revealed a scheme to falsify quality control data may have led to the wave of layoffs and suspensions currently underway at LM Wind Power. 
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GE Vernova took a 700 million charge for discovering flaws in the offshore wind blades. 
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, GE Vernova, and Vineyard Wind have no comment. 
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GE Vernova needs a test on a prototype blade in a test center large enough to complete a torsion test on an entire blade without extrapolating data. GE Vernova has issues with data and quality control. 
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An operating turbine should be set up in the North Sea or off the coast of New England for one year to test in the ocean environment. 
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The best choice  GE Vernova: drop the offshore wind business and go forward with gas and nuclear turbines.  
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

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