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  2. Hornslet wind-turbine collapse - Wikipedia

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    The wind turbine was a Nordtank NTK 600-180/43 with a maximum generation capacity of 600 kW at Hornslet, Denmark at It was operated by Syddjurs and inaugurated on 23 December 1996. The rotor of this turbine, which carried in the Danish wind turbine register the designation 570715000000021503, had a diameter of 43 metres.

  3. Energy accidents - Wikipedia

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    October 16, 2003 "Derrybrien wind farm", Ireland's largest wind turbine construction project at the time, on top of a hill, with an underlying layer of peat bog. Resulted in the triggering of a peat avalanche, and thereby the pollution of a nearby lake, contaminating the water supply of a town and the death of an estimated 50,000 fish, with ...

  4. 2021 Texas power crisis - Wikipedia

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    However, wind energy accounts for only 23% of Texas power output. [48] Moreover, equipment for other energy sources such as natural gas power generating facilities either freezing up or having mechanical failures were also responsible. [47] Governor Abbott later acknowledged that coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants had played a role. [47]

  5. Opinion - A ‘clean energy’ disaster looms off our coasts

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    The potential for offshore wind turbines to break apart and create ocean-bound junk, combined with the threat of hurricanes and other storms, raises concerns about the safety and environmental ...

  6. List of building and structure collapses - Wikipedia

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    Neurath Power Station Scaffold collapse: Grevenbroich-Neurath, Germany: Power station under construction: 3 dead, 6 injured 2007: WNEP-TV Tower: Penobscot Knob, Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, US: Guyed mast: 2007: I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse: Minneapolis, Minnesota, US: Bridge: 13 dead, 145 injured 2007: Collapse of bridge over the ...

  7. Global climate disaster inevitable if action not taken soon ...

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    Making that happen, the report says, is up to G20 countries, including the U.S. Increasing the use of solar and wind energy technology could help reduce global emissions by more than a quarter ...

  8. Sayano-Shushenskaya power station accident - Wikipedia

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    At 08:12 local time, turbine 2's output power was reduced by the turbine regulator and it entered into the non-recommended powerband II. Shortly after this, the bolts keeping the turbine cover in place broke, and under water pressure of about 20 bars (2,000 kPa), the spinning turbine with its cover, rotor, and upper parts started to move up ...

  9. Cuba's electric grid collapses after power plant failure ...

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    The country's energy and mines ministry said the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, the island's top electricity producer, had shut down at around 2 a.m., prompting the grid collapse. Cuba ...