July 18, 2024 — As Vineyard Wind CEO Klaus Skoust Møller apologized to the Nantucket community Wednesday night for his company’s damaged offshore turbine blade that has scattered debris across the island’s south shore beaches, more trouble was brewing at the wind farm 15 miles southwest of Nantucket.
After getting grilled by island residents for more than an hour about the unfolding disaster, Møller abruptly left the building after being informed that “there was a development to the integrity of the blade.”
He departed the island aboard a Leonardo helicopter to attend to the situation while those in attendance waited in suspense for an update.
An hour later it came: the integrity of the blade – which was hanging parallel to the turbine after last Saturday’s incident – had become further compromised, and more debris had been observed falling into the water. By Thursday morning, the remaining portion of the blade had plummeted into the waves.