One Energy restarts wind turbine operations after blade failure [Video]

FINDLAY, Ohio — Three months ago, a wind turbine at the One Energy wind campus in Findlay lost a blade.

Now, the company says it knows what happened and is restarting energy production.

One Energy CEO Jereme Kent says his team has been busy checking every piece of equipment, using third party labs and research groups and even going over the damaged bolts with an electron microscope since one of the company’s newer turbines threw a blade on Jan. 22.

“So that’s where we had to do a comprehensive analysis top to bottom, don’t rule out anything, start back from the basics,” Kent said. “Work through all of the scenarios of what is the actual ‘why’ behind all of it. That’s what took time and that’s what we wanted to make sure …