Vineyard Wind Turbine Remains A Lightning Risk

Vineyard Wind Turbine Remains A Lightning Risk 
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On July 13, 2024, a blade broke off Vineyard Wind turbine number AW 38 dumping 50 tons of microplastics, foam and balsa wood into the ocean environment. 
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On February 27, 2025, the same wind turbine was hit by lightning.  
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According to a newspaper quote, Massachusetts State Senator Julian Cyr said it makes sense the turbine was hit by lightning because it has no lightning protection.  ( see note 1) 
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement conducted a safety inspection of the July blade failure. According to federal data, lightning strikes are the largest source of blade failures  
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The wind turbine will be repaired in May 2025. Two other defective blades have never been removed. 
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Note 1 
Lightning strikes damaged Vineyard Wind turbine
National Fisherman: March 5, 2025 
“It makes sense that it was the same turbine that was damaged in July 2024, because it is not operational and does not have the same grounding and lightning strike protection systems designed to protect these turbines from lightning strikes,” commented Senator Julian Cyr, who represents Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. 
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Comment by Willem Post on March 6, 2025 at 8:40am

Frank, are any of the monstrous windmills in operation?

Blades can be protected against lightning, but it requires equipping each blade with lightning wiring, plus the charge has to be led from the moving blade to the stationary tower, etc.

Each bled should have had such protection, otherwise blade failures and fires could occur.

Remember, these are experimental blades, that were never tested in the field, built by Canadians and a French company that do not give a damn about the US

 

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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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"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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