Drawing on far-ranging claims data and in-field experience, its study Towering Inferno found that while turbine fires remain a relative rarity — the global fleet of 300,000 machines sees just 50 each year — they can lead to a "disproportionate amount of negative news coverage" by anti-wind media.
“While the vast majority of renewable energy losses escape the attention of the international media, it seems that, every few weeks, a turbine fire makes the headlines,” says GCube head of business development Jatin Sharma.
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