Blade damage caused the entire wind turbine to tip over
Nordkurier.de|Torsten Bengelsdorf|August 8, 2023
The assessment of the police that there was no danger to people is hard to believe in view of such pictures. Especially since an initially broken blade of the rotor had also attracted onlookers before the collapse of the entire wind turbine, who are said to have been in the vicinity of the distressed turbine shortly before the tower buckled. After all, the police had blocked the passing state road on Monday afternoon.
The assessment of the police that there was no danger to people is hard to believe in view of such pictures. Especially since an initially broken blade of the rotor had also attracted onlookers before the collapse of the entire wind turbine, who are said to have been in the vicinity of the distressed turbine shortly before the tower buckled. After all, the police had blocked the passing state road on Monday afternoon.
In view of the large amount of debris in the ground, it is a bold assessment that the accident involving a wind turbine near Gnoien posed no danger to people.
As if nothing had ever happened in the Dölitz wind farm (Rostock district), the blades on four of the six wind turbines turned back to normal on Tuesday. However, already in the morning, heavy machinery had come up at the edge of the harvested rapeseed field. One day after a wind turbine crashed in the Dölitz wind farm , the salvage of the debris from the broken wind turbine began on Tuesday, August 8th.
It became clear once again the force with which parts of the wings and the turbine flew through the area and then hit the farmland. Remains of the plant were even discovered in an …
... more [truncated due to possible copyright]In view of the large amount of debris in the ground, it is a bold assessment that the accident involving a wind turbine near Gnoien posed no danger to people.
As if nothing had ever happened in the Dölitz wind farm (Rostock district), the blades on four of the six wind turbines turned back to normal on Tuesday. However, already in the morning, heavy machinery had come up at the edge of the harvested rapeseed field. One day after a wind turbine crashed in the Dölitz wind farm , the salvage of the debris from the broken wind turbine began on Tuesday, August 8th.
It became clear once again the force with which parts of the wings and the turbine flew through the area and then hit the farmland. Remains of the plant were even discovered in an adjacent corn field.
Also attracted onlookers
The assessment of the police that there was no danger to people is hard to believe in view of such pictures. Especially since an initially broken blade of the rotor had also attracted onlookers before the collapse of the entire wind turbine, who are said to have been in the vicinity of the distressed turbine shortly before the tower buckled. After all, the police had blocked the passing state road on Monday afternoon.
The damage to the blade is likely to have triggered the accident, as initial investigations have confirmed. This led to a constant imbalance on the rotor, which led to such high forces on the 65-meter-high construction in the strong wind on Monday that the tower suddenly collapsed, as the police reported on Tuesday. The still-rotating blades hit the ground together with the turbine, parts of which must then have flown through the air like projectiles.
Remote control failed
Shortly after the accident on Monday, technicians had already admitted that the wind turbine's remote control had failed and that it could therefore no longer be switched off. The fact that there had been problems with the wind turbine was said to have been known in the control center for days. In addition, Thomas Schröder, who lives nearby, observed last week how lightning struck the wind turbine. After that, the system stopped working properly.
The Boddin/Dölitz II wind farm, as it is officially called, was one of the first to be built in the region. The wind turbines were put into operation in 1997.