Vineyard Wind sues GE Vernova: What About Massachusetts
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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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “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 if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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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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