The developer of a nearly completed wind farm off the Massachusetts coast has temporarily blocked its GE Vernova turbine supplier from walking away from the $4.5-billion project over disputed payments for defective blades.
The failed 107-meter turbine blade sparked a massive cleanup effort after debris fouled pristine Nantucket beaches and a federal review that found the cutting-edge GE Haliade-X components were improperly bonded at a Canadian manufacturing facility. The supplier replaced nearly all the project’s blades, and the defect delayed Vineyard Wind by two years.
In a Friday ruling, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Peter Krupp said Vineyard Wind is ...
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