TIPTON, Ind. (AP) - General Electric says a wind turbine that lost one of its blades this week at a central Indiana wind farm may have been struck by lightning.
The company, which makes the blades, says in a statement early signs point to lightning as the reason a turbine in Tipton County lost one of its three blades Wednesday night.
The Kokomo Tribune reports (https://bit.ly/1fVEKRy ) GE says it will assign a team to perform a thorough investigation to identify the root cause of the malfunction.
Wednesday’s blade separation was the second time in two months a blade has fallen from one of the Wildcat Wind Farm’s 125 wind turbines since the site went online in December 2012.
Part of a blade also separated Feb. 1 from one of the farm’s turbines near Windfall.
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Information from: Kokomo Tribune, https://www.ktonline.com
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