Blade breaks off Vestas V150 turbine in Germany
Danish wind turbine manufacturer confirms incident at V150-4.2MW machine in wind farm in Brandenburg state
A blade broke off a Vestas V150-4.2MW turbine at the Lübbenow wind farm in northwestern Germany.
No one was hurt.
“On 24 June 2025, a broken blade was recorded on a wind turbine in Germany,” a Vestas spokesman said.
“All plant and personnel were safe and accounted for, the site has been secured, and there were no injuries. Vestas will work with the customer to determine the root cause and the next steps.”
Video footage by the newspaper shows the wind turbine still standing with one blade broken off, and then the debris of the broken blade in a nearby field.
"It was a sound like a tractor dumping a load of boulders," Carmen Flemming, the owner of a nearby rose farm, described what she heard when the blade broke off on Tuesday, while she was watering her plants.
Wind turbine breaks or other incidents, such as fires, are relatively rare considering the massive amounts of wind turbines that have been deployed in recent years.
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