On Sunday afternoon, 1 November 2026, a large-scale power cut affected the south of the city of Salzburg and the northern Tennengau area of Austria. According to Salzburg AG, the outage originated from a transformer that caught fire at the Elsbethen...
Energy incidents: Austria
Incidents recorded in Austria across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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On 15 September 2026, at about 20:30, a basement fire was reported at a house in Mank, in the district of Melk, Austria. The object involved was the energy storage of a photovoltaic installation, with a reported capacity of about 27 kWh and about 4,000...
A service provider died after falling approximately 100 metres inside the tower of an Enercon wind turbine being installed at the Potzneusiedl IV-V wind farm in Burgenland, Austria. Enercon had been contracted to repower the site as part of a wider repowering...
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