Named in a role in 13 records, between 2017 and 2026.
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On the evening of Thursday 17 September, one of the 215 turbines at Whitelee Windfarm near Glasgow caught fire. Pictures shared with the reporting newspaper showed the turbine's charred head and blackened blades on the roughly 65-metre-tall hub, described as...
A fire broke out at Bellshill substation on Clay Crescent, Bellshill, Glasgow, with reports of smoke prompting an emergency response. Fire crews attended and extinguished the blaze using two appliances. The incident caused a power outage affecting more than...
A gas leak was reported in the afternoon at a battery energy storage system under construction off Edinburgh Road, near Cockenzie. Residents close to the site reported a strong smell of gas and noise. Scottish Gas Networks attended and said the leak followed...
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A wind turbine caught fire at Coldham Wind Farm, near Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire, UK. The site is operated and owned by ScottishPower Renewables, with turbines manufactured by Vestas. The incident was reported by a local news outlet in early February 2025. No...
On a Sunday afternoon in August 2024, at about 3.54pm, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to a fire at Cockenzie Substation, on the former Cockenzie Power Station site in East Lothian. Four fire appliances and specialist resources were sent to...
A substation at Slater's Steps, off Holyrood Road in Edinburgh, suffered what ScottishPower described as its first ever mechanical failure at an Edinburgh substation, causing a major fire and a series of loud explosions. Thick, acrid smoke was produced as the...
ScottishPower Renewables said it was aware of an incident at its Lynemouth wind farm near Ashington in north-east England and was carrying out a full investigation with its contractor. Images posted on social media earlier in the week showed a single turbine...
On 21 September 2017 at around 3.20pm, a loud bang was heard following a component failure at a substation forming part of the Western Link electrical facility in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire, close to the Hunterston B nuclear power station. The incident...
On 26 June 2017 a fire at Napier Drive substation, Govan destroyed a distribution box at about 6.30pm. Scottish Fire and Rescue was called to extinguish the flames, and ScottishPower engineers were then called to fix the problem. Hundreds of residents were...
At around 6.30pm on 26 June 2017, a fire was deliberately started at an electrical distribution substation on Napier Drive in Govan, Glasgow. ScottishPower said the distribution box was completely destroyed by the fire, which was in a predominantly...
A 32 year old man fell to his death from a turbine at Whitelee Windfarm near Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire, Scotland. The incident occurred on a Wednesday in late March 2017 while the turbine involved was reportedly undergoing maintenance, although the...
A 480-foot wind turbine at the Kilgallioch wind farm near Barrhill, Ayrshire, collapsed in the early hours of 13 January 2017 during a storm with 55mph gusts and snow squalls. The 160-tonne turbine, valued at around £2 million, had not yet been commissioned...
A Vestas 2MW wind turbine at the 30MW Ardrossan wind farm in Ayrshire, Scotland, caught fire in its nacelle during a severe storm that brought winds of up to 165mph to the northern half of the UK. The owner, Infinis Energy, confirmed the nacelle had caught...
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