Vineyard Wind Turbine Blade Ship Due New Bedford Nov 2, 2024

Vineyard Wind Turbine Blade Ship Due New Bedford Nov 2, 2024 
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Vineyard Wind turbine blades left New Bedford on October 5, 2024, in the ship ROLLDOCK SUN on the way to Cherbourg, France. 
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The manufacturer of the blades LM Wind Company owned by GE Vernova has found blades with similar problems as the Vineyard Wind catastrophic blade failure on July 13, 2024. GE Vernova installed around 50 blades at Dogger Bank and Nantucket over six months with three accidents. Six percent per year blade failure accident rate. 
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The Nantucket accident dumped up to 50 tons of microplastics, fiberglass, and balsa wood over the tourist season. Material is still being picked up on Nantucket beaches the environmental damage remains unknown.
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To manufacture 150 blades for the Vineyard Wind project a prototype blade had to be first tested at the 90-meter (300-foot) Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Wind Technology Test Center. The new experimental hybrid blade 107 meters (351 feet)  had to be cut into two parts to get into the building. The blade was tested and certified with no torsion tests that had been done in the past and never had any ocean field test. 
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GE Vernova took a 700 million charge on wind contracts associated with blade failures. The new GE/LM 107M hybrid blades are easier and less expensive to manufacture than those with higher amounts of carbon fiber.
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GE Vernova has not stated the exact number of defective blades but this week two other ships the UHL FORTUNE and UHL FRONTIER each capable of carrying six blades have been in New Bedford. The ROLLDOCK SUN is due from France this Saturday at 8 AM with unknown cargo. 
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In September 2024 : GE Vernova: "CEO Scott Strazik admitted "time is an enemy" in the battle to regain momentum at two of the world's biggest projects that have been set back as a result." This rush to install blades is the answer to why the prototype blade never was first field tested or tested for torsion. 
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Note#  1. The ROLLDOCK class type ships can load wind turbine blades by three methods. The ship can sink itself low enough to float wind turbine blades through the back of the ship, second they can be rolled on through the back and three loaded from the top. 
             2.  M.L. Baron of the West Island Weather Station in Buzzards Bay reports daily on New Bedford/ Fairhaven and the newspaper reporter Anastasia Lennon, the New Bedford Light. 

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