Summary of Wind Turbine Accident data to 31 March 2016
These accident statistics are copyright Caithness Windfarm Information Forum 2016. The data may be used or referred to by groups or individuals, provided that the source (Caithness Windfarm Information Forum) is acknowledged and our URL http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk quoted at the same time. Caithness Windfarm Information Forum is not responsible for the accuracy of Third Party material or references.
The Summary may be downloaded in printable form here
This is GLOBAL data – see Detailed Accident List with sources and locations
The attached detailed table includes all documented cases of wind turbine related accidents and incidents which could be found and confirmed through press reports or official information releases up to 31 March 2016. CWIF believe that this compendium of accident information may be the most comprehensive available anywhere.
Data in the detailed table attached is by no means fully comprehensive – CWIF believe that what is attached may only be the “tip of the iceberg” in terms of numbers of accidents and their frequency. Indeed on 11 December 2011 the Daily Telegraph reported that RenewableUK confirmed that there had been 1500 wind turbine accidents and incidents in the UK alone in the previous 5 years. Data here reports only 142 UK accidents from 2006-2010 and so the figures here may only represent 9% of actual accidents.
The data does however give an excellent cross-section of the types of accidents which can and do occur, and their consequences. With few exceptions, before about 1997 only data on fatal accidents has been found.
The trend is as expected – as more turbines are built, more accidents occur. Numbers of recorded accidents reflect this, with an average of 21 accidents per year from 1996-2000 inclusive; 57 accidents per year from 2001-2005 inclusive; 118 accidents per year from 2006-10 inclusive, and 164 accidents per year from 2011-15 inclusive.
Read More: http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/AccidentStatistics.htm
Mothers Against Wind Turbines Inc. 
I looked at the Linda Rogers link of Brookfield contracting to supply Facebook with 100% so called renewable power. This fashionable idiocy has to stop. I think it said that Brookfield’s Irish wind capacity was just over 460 MW, supplying the alleged equivalent of 150 MW, which small as it is, implies an unusually high capacity factor. In Ontario, the new company at http://terrestrialenergy.com has what they call an Integral Molten Salt Reactor design, and a range of very clean and safe reactor designs that produce no CO2, no poisonous gases, and quantities of nuclear waste even more trifling than the ridiculously dreaded 2500 tons a year of “spent” fuel that the USA endures for the production of about a fifth of its electric annual demand. That’s about 90,000 MW, and it reliably meets base load demand.
Every person that has ever used sail power knows that NOTHING can induce the wind to come except exactly when it please the Wind Gods, and it may even come when you DO NOT want iy
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/grand-etang-wind-turbine-snaps-1.3921256