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The P.E.I. government’s wind farm in Hermanville has been running at reduced capacity since the end of December after a storm took down a large part of a blade on one of its turbines.

Blair Arsenault, an operational engineer at P.E.I. Energy Corporation, said the incident with Turbine 3, or T3, is still under investigation.

“The technicians have gone up the tower and everything is functional out in the hub and including the nacelle. So it’s definitely repairable. We will need a new blade and we will need to do repairs to the nacelle.”

The nacelle is the covered housing containing the components that together turn the rotation of the turbine into energy. 

Arsenault said T3 will likely be operational in late May or mid-June.

While blades on such turbines are usually supposed to withstand storms, Arsenault says damage is not uncommon. 

“So [at] East Point, for example, we’ve replaced …

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