DeWind switches Canada blades

A DeWind turbine

Wind turbine manufacturer DeWind expects to complete in March the replacement of the rotor blades pulled from a research deployment at the Wind Energy Institute of Canada and will use a new supplier.

The 15, 45.3-metre blades were removed from five of DeWind’s 2MW D9.2 turbines after bonding issues emerged and surface cracks had begun to appear, manager of sales Kent Prentice tells Recharge.

"It's a supply quality issue," Prentice says, declining to name the blade manufacturer that supplied them.

DeWind has turned to another supplier for replacement blades, which he also would not name.

Installation of the replacement blades is expected to be done by mid-March. There have been no issues with the nacelles which were manufactured in Round Rock, Texas, by assembly contractor…

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