Independent incident register

Energy asset failures, found daily and sourced.

Battery storage, solar, wind and grid. Every incident we can find in public reporting, written up with what happened, why, the lessons for other operators, and the sources behind it, with the site and the companies named as the reporting names them. Free to read and free by email. Subscribers get the structured record: manufacturer, integrator, cause, failure mode, capacity, downtime, losses and every source, as fields you can filter, count and export.

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The difference

The free register tells you what happened. The verified record tells you what failed, why, and what it cost.

Every entry on the public register names the site and the companies as the public reporting names them, and never an individual person. The verified record behind it turns that reporting into structured fields, cross-checked against the sources, for subscribers.

One real entry, EIR-0011, the McMicken battery storage explosion in Surprise, Arizona, shown both ways.

What the free register holds for an entry, and what a subscription adds
On this entry Free register
What happened, and the lessonsThermal runaway and explosion, eight firefighters and one police officer taken to hospital. Gas detection thresholds, suppression on cell level events, separation distances. Included Included
Site, place and companies, in the textNamed as the public reporting names them Included Included
The sources it was written from Included Included
Site, operator and owner as fieldsFilter and count them, with location and country Not included Included
Manufacturer, integrator and EPC as fieldsWhere the sources state them, feeding the company pages Not included Included
Capacity and ageMW, MWh, commercial operation year, age at incident Not included Included
Root cause and what failedAs stated by the fire service, the regulator or the operator Not included Included
Downtime, loss estimate, insurance and regulatory actionRecorded where a source reports them Not included Included
Verification status, with every source linked Not included Included
Benchmark tables, company pages in full, CSV exportAcross the whole register, not one entry Not included Included

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How it works

Public sources in. Verified records out. Every step checked against the sources.

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Fire service reports, regulator filings, court records, operator statements and trade press are checked every day. People who were there submit directly.

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Verify

Each incident is drafted into a structured record and marked unverified, single source, or verified when two independent sources agree.

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Review

Every draft is reviewed against its sources before publication and given a tier: confirmed, or provisional while reporting is still thin. Provisional entries are rechecked as new reports appear. The structured record stays with subscribers.

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Subscribers to alerts hear within 24 hours. Every record carries its sources, so you can check them yourself.

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Questions

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Is the register really free?

Yes. The register, the insights, the statistics and the email alerts are free and will stay free. Paid plans add the structured record behind each entry.

Where does the verified data come from?

Public sources only: fire service reports, regulator filings, court records, operator statements and trade press. Every record links its sources and shows its verification status. See the methodology and the accuracy disclaimer.

Is this written by AI?

Most entries are found in public reporting and drafted by language models, then reviewed by a separate model pass against the same sources before anything is published. Every field has to be supported by a cited source, and a model is never asked what it knows about an incident, only what a given source says. The methodology page sets out each step and the rules they work under.

Does naming a site or supplier mean they were at fault?

No. A verified record records public facts about an incident. It is not a judgement of fault, quality or liability, and the register does not investigate or assign blame.

Can I submit an incident anonymously?

You give us your details so we can check the submission, but they are never published and are protected by database access rules. The published entry is anonymised. Submit an incident.

Who runs the register?

It is independently run and self-funded. Editorial decisions sit with the editor and are not influenced by any operator, vendor or service provider. About the register.