About the register
An open record of energy incidents and their lessons, naming sites and companies as the reporting does, never a person.
What the register is
A free, public database of safety incidents, near-misses, and operational failures from utility-scale renewable energy assets and the grid infrastructure that supports them. Each entry is structured, sourced, and accompanied by clearly stated lessons learned.
It is not a regulator. It is not an investigator. It is a shared learning resource for the industry.
The Energy Incident Register is a data contributor to the PV Fire Intelligence Network (PV-FIN), led by BRE. The register's UK solar records feed BRE's work on solar PV fires. It has been reported by DatacenterDynamics (DCD).
Two layers. The free register is open to everyone and names sites and companies as the public reporting names them. Behind it, for professional users, sits the verified record: the companies as fields you can filter and count, root cause, failure mode, capacity, downtime, losses and every source, built from public reporting and cross-checked. Verified records, benchmarks and alerts are what fund the free register. See plans or request the free sample pack.
Scope
The register covers incidents in the following asset classes:
- Battery energy storage systems (BESS) at utility scale
- Solar photovoltaic generation at utility scale
- Onshore and offshore wind generation
- Grid-connection infrastructure including HV transformers, switchgear, and substations
- Hybrid co-located sites (storage with generation)
Residential systems, behind-the-meter installations, and small commercial assets are out of scope. The register focuses on assets where lessons learned can scale across operators.
Governance
The register is independently run. It is not owned or controlled by any operator, vendor, insurer, or industry body.
Editorial rules (what gets published, how submissions are anonymised, what is rejected) are set by the editor and applied by the automated pipeline described in the methodology. As the register grows, an advisory group of independent industry figures will be invited to provide oversight on review processes and editorial principles.
Editorial decisions are not influenced by any operator, vendor, or product in the industries it covers.
The editor
The register's responsible editor is the Chief Editor, Energy Incident Register. Entries written from public reporting are drafted and checked by the automated pipeline under the editor's rules, set out in the methodology and the disclosure policy. Each entry names its sources, shows the date it was published and the date its text last changed, and is rechecked as more reporting appears. The editor is responsible for what is published and for every correction, which is logged on the corrections page.
To report a mistake, ask about an entry or talk about the paid services, write to info@energyincidentregister.com.
Why this matters
Utility-scale energy assets are deployed at speed. The pace of deployment outstrips the pace at which the industry shares safety learning. Major operators have internal incident-review processes; smaller operators, contractors, and new entrants generally do not. The result is that lessons paid for in one place have to be paid for again somewhere else.
A neutral, public, structured register narrows that gap. It gives the small operator the same access to industry-wide lessons that the major operator gets through internal sharing. It gives the new entrant a starting library of patterns to learn from. It gives the regulator and the journalist a credible reference point for sector-level questions.
The register is descriptive, not investigative. It exists to share lessons, not to assign blame. Submissions about incidents requiring formal regulatory investigation should be reported to the appropriate national authority first; the register is a complement to, not a replacement for, regulatory reporting.
Funding
The register is funded by its paid services for professional users: verified incident records, benchmarks and alerts for insurers, lenders, developers and operators, and data licences for organisations that need the dataset inside their own systems. These are built on public sources and offered separately from the free register.
The free public register stays free. Paid services do not change what is published in the free register, or how submissions are anonymised.
Other funding routes that may be explored include grants from public bodies and disclosed sponsorship, structured to preserve editorial independence.
Independence
- Submitters are never charged and never paid.
- The free public register has no paywall.
- The register currently carries no advertising or sponsored content. Any future sponsorship will be disclosed on this page.
- The register's editorial decisions are not influenced by any submitter, reader, customer, or third party.
- The register's funding sources are disclosed on this page.
Reporting
The statistics page is the register's live report: entries published, provisional, taken off after review, verified records and pipeline health, updated daily. Corrections are logged on the corrections page. A summary of each year will be published on the register once it has a full year behind it, the first covering 2026.
Get involved
The register grows through submissions. If you have witnessed or worked on an incident in a utility-scale energy asset, and the lessons would help others, please consider submitting. All identifying information is kept private.
If you underwrite, lend to, buy for or operate energy assets, the structured record behind each entry is what you will want: see a complete record in the open, or the plans.
If you would like to discuss the register, contribute editorial expertise, or talk about institutional support, please get in touch at info@energyincidentregister.com.