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November 1st, 2020 
Awake Goy 
The UK intends to have many more expensive wind turbines scattered all over the place, often in remote areas or offshore. How best to prevent, or deal with, fires is a question that can’t be swept under the carpet to maintain a false image.
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Why the wind industry cannot afford the financial and reputational damage that even a single turbine fire can bring.
The wind industry has underestimated fire risk for decades, says Angela Krcmar @ Power Engineering International.
Even now, statistics around fire losses are based on estimates and incomplete datasets.
For a time, the industry could get away with not fully managing fire risk, as the size and number of assets per owner were low enough for many to not experience a fire in their portfolio.
However, as turbines begin to scale up and wind takes on a greater share of national energy mixes…
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