CNN —The massive offshore wind turbine blade that broke and spread fiberglass and foam debris across Nantucket beaches this week was one of several recent failures of blades made by GE Vernova – a top US wind turbine manufacturer. Several GE Vernova blades have broken on onshore and offshore turbines in Germany, Sweden, Lithuania and the United Kingdom in recent years. Broken wind turbines are “highly unusual and rare,” a GE Vernova representative told Nantucket residents and officials on Wednesday. WBZTown of Nantucket CurrentLast year, three GE Vernova blades broke at the Alfstedt-Ebersdorf onshore wind farm in Germany. The total number of broken turbine blades has been relatively low compared to the large number of blades manufactured each year.

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Persons: it’s, Indra Mukherjee, ” Mukherjee, Mukherjee, Julia Pschribülla, Pschribülla, Brooke Mohr Organizations: CNN, GE Vernova, GE, Nantucket, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, P, WBZ, Energy Locations: Germany, Sweden, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Avangrid, Copenhagen, Nantucket, Massachusetts, East Coast