MONTHS after a Vestas V47 wind turbine bent double at Beinn an Tuirc wind farm in Kintyre, another two collapsed violently in Denmark within a week of one another.
According to a report published in The Copenhagen Post on February 25 an investigation has been urged by the country’s climate minister, Connie Hedegaard.
A recording of the one of the wind turbines near the city of Århus is now featured on YouTube after it began spinning out of control during high winds.
It shows an explosion-like disintegration with one of the blades breaking off, casting debris into the other blades and shearing the 60-metre tower nearly in half.
Vestas is now conducting an internal investigation to determine the cause of the wind turbines breaking down.
Vesta’s spokesman, Peter Wenzel Kruse, told The Copenhagen Post, an English language news service: ‘We’ve still got about 35,000 wind turbines across the globe that are operating fine.
‘But they’re not infallible. We’re doing what we can and learning from our mistakes.’
See the film for yourself at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtmlHwcA&NR=1
