Pieces of the wind turbine blades. Video by VnExpress/An Minh
Residents of Hoa Binh District heard a loud noise at around 5 p.m. Friday and saw wing blades at Hoa Binh Wind Power No. 5 fell to the ground. No person was injured.
Authorities of the district were seen on site Saturday morning to examine the accident.
The blades, each of which is 80 meters long and three meters wide, broke into many pieces in an area of 50 square meters.
The project was being developed by Hacom Bac Lieu Energy.
The blades also damaged a storage house of a local fish farm.
There were three people in the house when the blades dropped but no one was hurt, said Nguyen Van Kien, owner of the farm.
The inside of a blade was exposed after the fall.
The turbines in the project have been suspended after the incident.
The project has a price tag of VND3.7 trillion (US$150 million) with a capacity of up to 80 megawatts.
It is built on an area of 30 hectares with 26 turbines that can generate 280 million kilowatt-hours a year.
This is the largest onshore wind power plant near the sea in the Mekong Delta region.
Bac Lieu Province has 10 wind power plants, eight of them operational.
