Sentences with phrase «falling wind turbine blade»

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Despite the potential collective loss of millions of dollars in electric generation, the U.S. wind energy industry has voluntarily committed to changing how turbines are operated during the bats» fall migration season, slowing blade rotations to fewer than 1 - 3 revolutions a minute, depending on blade length, thereby reducing the risk of collision.

An anti-wind power Net site (Caithness Windfarm Information Forum) in 2013 recorded an average of about 20 blade - failure events per year world - wide (not necessarily in utility scale wind turbines and the blades did not necessarily fall off).