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Photo Caption: Vineyard Wind turbine-blade failure off Nantucket, MA in July (top); Vestas turbine collapse in August, one of three failures in six months at the Ameren wind farm in Schuyler County, MO.<\/em><\/p>\n
The Vestas V236-15.0 MW turbine contracted for use by the Atlantic Shores South project is an unproven, first-of-its-kind design that stands 1,048 feet tall \u2014 three times the height of the Statue of Liberty \u2014 making it one of the tallest wind turbines in the world. It has three massive blades, each longer than a football field, which translates into 600 spinning behemoths in the Atlantic Shores South (OCS-A 0499) project area, the closest of which would be only 8.7 miles from shore, closer than anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n
Atlantic Shores should provide full, up-front disclosure on a number of issues, including: <\/strong><\/p>\n In the wake of the blade failure at the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Nantucket in July, Dr. Robert Stern, president of Save LBI, sent two letters to Atlantic Shores CEO Joris Veldhoven inviting Atlantic Shores to participate in a panel discussion at the LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences. Both were ignored, revealing a shocking level of arrogance and disrespect for a community that is justifiably concerned.<\/p>\n A Call for Transparency Amid the Rush to Build Ever-Larger Wind Turbines<\/strong><\/p>\n Save LBI\u2019s call for corporate and State Agency transparency follows a string of at least eight catastrophic offshore and onshore wind-turbine failures between April and November of 2024. The failures spanned three different turbine suppliers \u2014 Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, and GE Vernova \u2014 and involved not only collapsing blades but entire turbine structures toppling over [*notes 1-8]. Half of these failures involved Vestas turbines, causing great concern over the integrity of the colossal blades and supporting structures Atlantic Shores is planning to locate near New Jersey beaches [*note 9].<\/p>\n According to a 2023 report in Maintworld, a magazine for maintenance and asset management professionals, \u201cturbine failures are on the uptick across the world\u2026The instances are part of a rash of full collapses. A recent report says production issues may be to blame for the mysterious increase in failures [*note 10].\u201d<\/p>\n In a May 2023 report entitled \u201cVertical Limit: When is bigger not better in offshore wind\u2019s race to scale?\u201d GCube Insurance, an underwriter for renewable energy projects, reviewed 10 years of claims data and found \u201coffshore wind\u2019s risk landscape has significantly shifted, as manufacturers push to develop bigger machines\u2026Over the past five years, the race to scale turbine technologies has seen the leap from 8 megawatt (MW) to 18 MW turbines occurring in a fraction of the time it took to go from 3 MW to 8 MW. While this is a fantastic technological achievement, such rapid commercialization of \u2018prototypical\u2019 technologies is now leading to a concerning number of losses, and subsequently piling financial pressure on manufacturers, the supply chain, and the insurance market, according to GCube.\u201d [*note 11]<\/p>\n Save LBI\u2019s demand for accountability also comes amid revelations of a quality-control-data falsification scheme at a blade manufacturing facility in Canada [*note 12], and concern that such misrepresentations could be an industry-wide problem. \u201cOur sources indicate that [falsifying data] is a widespread practice in the industry,\u201d according to a Radio Gasp\u00e9sie report [*note 13].<\/p>\n NJ: The De Facto Test-Bed for Super-Sized Wind Turbines<\/strong><\/p>\n Atlantic Shores will be among the first to deploy the \u201csuper-sized\u201d Vestas V236-15.0 MW wind turbine, which has never been tested in the harsh marine environment it will inhabit. Instead, testing was done on a land-based prototype turbine at the \u00d8sterild National test center in Denmark. New Jersey will, in effect, become a real-world Guinea pig for these newly designed gargantuan turbines.<\/p>\n In a series of videos on vestas.com, company executives boast how Vestas is \u201c\u2026leading the way into this new super-sized segment of wind turbines\u201d and \u201c\u2026entering into some unprecedented territory on many of the manufacturing processes that we employ for building the blade [emphasis added]. We need to scale up renewables fast and the V236 15.0 megawatt is there to do just that. [*note 14].\u201d<\/p>\n The structural integrity of the new \u201csuper-sized\u201d blades is of particular concern to Save LBI and local communities because they are primarily made of a fiberglass composite similar to the material used in the GE Vernova Haliade-X blade [*note 15], which spontaneously collapsed while undergoing testing at the Vineyard Wind project. The blade failure sent countless shards of fiberglass and pieces of foam into the ocean, causing beach closures during the height of tourist season and putting marine life and the local food chain at risk.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Vineyard Wind disaster and the many others like it are wake-up calls that raise serious concerns about the structural integrity of wind turbines and the long-term impact of such failures on the environment \u2014 the effects of which are still being felt in Nantucket four months later [*note 16],\u201d Dr. Stern said. \u201cEven some proponents of offshore wind are now questioning whether the obvious risks are worth the purported benefits. Is this what those of us who live in the shadow of Atlantic Shores South have to look forward to?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s past time for NJ BPU staff and Atlantic Shores to directly engage and disclose the full impact of this ominous offshore wind project to the local communities that will be directly affected by it before any further work or decision-making proceeds,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n About Save LBI<\/strong><\/p>\n Save Long Beach Island (Save LBI) is an organization of citizens and businesses on and off the Island working together to protect the ocean and Long Beach Island and neighboring communities from the destructive impact of the Atlantic Shores project and potentially other offshore wind projects. As a not-for-profit, non-partisan entity, we do not endorse any political candidates but vigorously pursue policies and actions that protect the Island and New Jersey communities. The organization is led by Beach Haven resident Bob Stern, a Ph.D. engineer with experience in environmental law who previously managed the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s office overseeing environment protection related to energy programs and projects. Visit SaveLBI.org for more information and to make a donation.<\/p>\n Contact: https:\/\/www.savelbi.org\/contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more information click here: https:\/\/www.savelbi.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n References<\/strong><\/p>\n Note: If a link doesn\u2019t work, copy and paste the URL into a browser.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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