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Kilgallioch turbine collapses; ScottishPower confirms Gamesa incident
Credit: reNEWS | 20/01/2017 | renews.biz ~~
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A turbine has collapsed at ScottishPower’s under-construction 239MW Kilgallioch wind farm in southwest Scotland.
The tower of a Gamesa machine failed on Friday, 13 January, a period during which the country was being hit by a winter storm.
The turbine failed around halfway up the structure, according to one project source.
A spokeswoman for ScottishPower Renewables said: “We are currently investigating an incident relating to an installed turbine at Kilgallioch wind farm during the early hours of Friday, January 13.”
She added: “The turbine was not yet operational and no one was in the vicinity at the time.”
Gamesa said: “Gamesa is currently investigating, jointly with the owner of the wind farm, the root cause of this incident.”
The Spanish manufacturer is supplying a mix of G114 an G97 hardware to the project, which is located in Dumfries and Galloway. The project is due to be operational later this year.
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