A lightning strike on the same Vineyard Wind turbine that suffered a catastrophic blade failure last summer has once again thrown the spotlight on the offshore wind farm. According to the U.S. Coast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "As part of its oversight responsibilities, BSEE is requiring a comprehensive assessment of the affected turbine and its ...

It’s a safe bet that lightning is going to strike twice around Vipin Kumar. In fact, he makes sure it does – every time he tests new technology to protect sky-high wind turbine blades. As a researcher ...

ORNL researcher Vipin Kumar, an expert in lightning strike protection for airborne composites, inspects the wind turbine blade tip before he and his team remove it from a mold at DOE’s Carbon Fiber ...

The blade of a wind turbine that sits off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, was struck by lightning, Vineyard Wind confirmed Sunday.The involved blade, GE Vernova, on turbine AW-38, was the ...

Positive charges distributed in the air are concentrated near the conventional air-termination, so positive polarity lightning of the same polarity avoids the positive charges and possibly strike the ...

The same Vineyard Wind turbine blade that snapped in half last summer now appears to have been struck by lightning, according to the company and the U.S. Coast Guard. On Sunday, officials confirmed ...

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A quick-thinking Tilbury storm chaser photographer caught an impressive photo of a wind turbine being struck by lightning – and it wasn’t the first time. Barb Arsenault and her husband, Mitch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lightning strike on the same Vineyard Wind turbine that suffered a catastrophic blade failure last summer has once again thrown ...