July 15, 2025 — Nantucket and GE Vernova announced Friday they had reached a $10.5 million settlement to compensate the Massachusetts town for a blade break at Vineyard Wind last summer.
A blade detached from one of the project’s 62 turbines on July 13, 2024, crashing into the ocean and sending a plume of fiberglass debris into the water.
The accident, which was later attributed to faulty quality control at a GE Vernova factory in Quebec, was a black eye for the offshore wind industry and delayed construction of what had been heralded as the country’s first major offshore wind project.