Blazing V164 turbine leaves major customers with no answers

A long line of northern Europe's largest energy companies are among the buyers of MHI Vestas' V164 turbine. However, the buyers have all purchased the 8 MW version of the turbine, and not the 9.5 MW version which caught fire last Friday.
Photo: National Wind Watch, arkivfoto.
Photo: National Wind Watch, arkivfoto.

What went wrong on Friday at 8:22 pm (CET) when the MHI Vestas V164 prototype went up in flames at the testing center in Østerild, Denmark? This question is on the minds of everyone in an entire industry, but it may take a long time to complete the investigations and determine the cause of the fire, several sources tell EnergyWatch.

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