GE Vernova Plans Mass Wind-Blade Inspection After Accident (3)

GE Vernova Inc. plans to reinspect every offshore wind-turbine blade the company has ever produced, after finding a “material deviation” at the factory supplying the component that recently broke at a US project under construction.

“We should have identified this prior to shipping” the blade, Chief Executive Officer Scott Strazik said in an interview Wednesday.

The company is facing scrutiny after a massive blade fell into the ocean July 13 at the project in Massachusetts, stopping construction at the nation’s biggest offshore wind farm. Strazik said there’s no sign of a design flaw in its Haliade-X offshore turbine, but it’s ...