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Motivation
Why systematic research into wind turbine accidents matters as wind energy expands worldwide.
Why this matters →Open research projectUnderstanding risk.
Understanding risk.
Advancing safer wind energy.
Research and open data on wind turbine accidents, failures and their underlying causes—built to support researchers, industry and public institutions.
240accidents documented
216news reports
240wind turbine accidents
1980–2013dataset period
The challenge
Renewable growth needs a clear view of risk.
As wind power expands worldwide, systematic evidence about accident patterns can help improve design, operation, maintenance and public policy. This project makes its research and source data openly accessible.
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Evidence, context and access
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Research
A curated bibliography of research on wind turbine accidents, failures, risk and reliability.
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Open Data
The public dataset of 240 wind turbine accidents reported in 216 news items from 1980 to 2013.
Access the dataset →Published research
From accident reports to actionable insight.
The project supports data mining, ontology-based analysis and topic modeling studies focused on wind turbine safety.
Public dataset
Dataset documentation →Use the data in your own research.
Download the compiled accident dataset and review how the news sources were collected and structured.