General Electric said it is doing “thorough investigations” of three recent incidents involving GE wind turbines breaking in the U.S. — including one at the California Ridge Wind Farm in Vermilion County — and has identified “a suspect population of roughly 1.5 percent of our total blades in our wind turbine fleet.”

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  For the third time in 17 months, a wind turbine blade manufactured by General Electric has broken off at an East Central Illinois wind farm. The latest incident occurred about 9 p.m. Nov. 20 in Vermilion County at the California Ridge Wind Farm operated by Chicago-based Invenergy. Another turbine blade broke in that same wind farm in November 2012, following a June 2012 blade break at the Settlers Trail Wind Farm near Sheldon.

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Early this morning, there was a wind turbine failure at the California Ridge Wind Farm just north of Oakwood, Illinois near the Newtown Middle School location.

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The Invenergy California Ridge Windfarm experienced a turbine blade failure. The 200 megawatt (134 GE 100-1.6 turbines) is located in Vermilion and Champaign counties in Illinois. Similar failures occurred at the project eariler in 2013.

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The blade of a wind turbine in the Settlers Trail Wind Farm near Sheldon was damaged over the weekend. E.On Climate & Renewables North America, Chicago, is investigating how the damage occurred.

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An "isolated manufacturing issue" caused two wind turbines in East Central Illinois to break last year, the manufacturer of the towers said Monday.

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Suzlon Energy Ltd. filed its complaint against Big Sky earlier this year claiming Big Sky improperly refused to make a prepayment for turbines supplied to Big Sky. The Ohio-based wind farm bought 114 Suzlon turbines in October 2009 for the Big Sky project.

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The firm that operates the recently built California Ridge Wind Farm in Vermilion and Champaign counties said it is looking into how a wind turbine's blade broke on Tuesday night. Chicago-based Invenergy LLC released a statement Wednesday, saying that one of the wind farm's 134 turbines "experienced a broken blade last night" but how the damage occurred was not immediately known.

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Chicago-based Invenergy LLC reported a blade faulire on a turbine at the company's recently built California Ridge Wind Farm (134 turbines) in Vermilion and Champaign counties in Illinois. The turbine is a GE 1.6 megawatt model 100 machine.

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"One of the blades looks like it has peeled back and wilted over, and there is debris lying around the base of the turbine," the witness said in the email. "Part of the blade that came down is laying a distance away from the base in the field."

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The Settlers Trail Wind Farm, operational since Spring 2012, experienced blade failure. The facility, located near Sheldon in Iroquois County, Illinois, is owned and operated by Germany-based E.On Climate & Renewables. It consists of 94 General Electric 1.6 MW Turbines for a nameplate capacity of 150.4 MW.

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The Settlers Trail Wind Farm, operational since Spring 2012, experienced blade failure. The facility, located near Sheldon in Iroquois County, Illinois, is owned and operated by Germany-based E.On Climate & Renewables. It consists of 94 General Electric 1.6 MW Turbines for a nameplate capacity of 150.4 MW.

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The Settlers Trail Wind Farm, operational since Spring 2012, experienced blade failure. The facility, located near Sheldon in Iroquois County, Illinois, is owned and operated by Germany-based E.On Climate & Renewables. It consists of 94 General Electric 1.6 MW Turbines for a nameplate capacity of 150.4 MW.

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Last month, the airport board authorized him to write a letter expressing his concerns about Ireland-based Mainstream Renewable Power's plan for a wind farm near Deer Grove, population 48, which is 11 miles south of Rock Falls.

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If wind turbines are allowed under that ordinance, tens of thousands of acres of farmland may become untreatable, he said. That's because the planes need enough room to safety navigate and make turns, he said. If wind turbines go up, companies that contract for farmers' crops may move production elsewhere, Cady warned.

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Stengel said broken blades occur occasionally with one happening in May 2010. The blade was removed in the last 1½ weeks. It shattered in mid-March.

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The citations followed an investigation at the Iberdrola Streator Cayuga Ridge South Wind Farm near Odell. The company, a servicing and maintenance provider in the wind tower industry, faces proposed penalties of $378,000.

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The technician suffered third-degree burns in the accident at the Iberdrola Streator Cayuga Ridge South Wind Farm near Odell, Ill. An investigation by OSHA found Outland didn't ensure technicians placed locks and tags on ground-level switches. A worker flipped a switch, energizing a transformer while the technician was working 350 feet above.

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Deputies observed that a trailer containing a windmill tower base had disconnected from the semi tractor pulling it and rolled over, blocking both lanes of the highway. ...The highway was closed for approximately six hours.

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Jessi Creasey, 16, and her passenger, Dani Creasey, 13, were traveling westbound on Empire when a support car with a wind-turbine transportation company traveling eastbound apparently knocked down some low-hanging wires. The support car and semi stopped a safe distance away, said officials with the Bloomington Police Department.

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