By Jason Graziadei
I&M Senior Writer
With its new 100-foot-tall windmill still broken and idle, Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm has sued its manufacturer and the company which installed the turbine in Nantucket Superior Court, seeking $1.5 million in damages.
One of the windmill’s 40-foot-long blades broke in half in moderate winds some time after dark Jan. 18, the broken piece plummeting to the ground where it landed nearly 175 feet away from the turbine. No one was hurt in the nighttime incident, but Bartlett’s Farm now alleges that the manufacturer of the windmill, Wind Energy Solutions (WES), of the Netherlands, knew of a design defect in the turbine model, and intentionally concealed the possible danger by negligently misrepresenting its product.
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