Incidents recorded in Australia across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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An early-morning fire broke out at Ausgrid's Mason Park substation in Homebush, Sydney, just after 2.15am. Fire and Rescue NSW initially sent eight fire trucks and 26 firefighters to the Homebush Bay Drive facility, where a coil tower was found well alight....
In May 2026 a turbine blade broke away and fell to the ground at the Lal Lal wind farm near Ballarat, Victoria. Nearby residents reported hearing a loud noise likened to an explosion, and the incident was briefly mischaracterised on social media as sabotage;...
On the morning of 15 May 2026, a blade snapped on a wind turbine over 160 metres tall at the Lal Lal Wind Farm, located off Yendon-Egerton Road south of Ballarat, Victoria. Nearby residents reported hearing loud noises as the blade broke and was left hanging...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
Fire Rescue Victoria and CFA crews responded to a solar box fire at a food distribution warehouse on Berends Drive, Dandenong South, on 13 February 2026. Firefighters found a small fire involving an inverter and cabling for the solar system. The incident was...
A Townsville Bulletin headline reported that multiple fire crews were rushing to a blaze at a solar farm near Gladstone in Central Queensland. The article text was not available, so it is not known what burned, whether solar equipment was damaged, or whether...
A small fire broke out on the roof of a property in Riverview Crt, Echuca, and was reported as a solar panel fire. The homeowner put the blaze out before emergency crews arrived. Echuca West Fire Brigade attended and remained as a precaution. Echuca CFA crews...
Vandals are reported to have set fire to a mattress placed next to an electrical substation at Rocherlea, in northern Tasmania, on a Sunday afternoon. The fire caused extensive damage to the substation and left approximately 1500 customers in Launceston's...
In December 2025, a grass fire broke out shortly after midday at Wellington North Solar Farm, a utility scale solar PV facility of several hundred megawatts near Wellington, close to Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia, operated and owned by Lightsource bp. The...
Adelaide Now reported on 1 November 2025 that a solar panel sparked a fire near a major centre in Noosa. The story address indicates that fire crews were called to a solar panel fire near the Noosa civic centre. The article text was not available, so the size...
A man died during construction of an onshore wind farm in Australia on 2 July 2025. The report describes a heavy machinery incident. The site, the companies involved and the circumstances are not reported.
A fire broke out in one of 56 Siemens Gamesa SG 3.4-132 turbines at the 194MW Bulgana Green Power Hub, operated and owned by Neoen, near Great Western, Victoria, which also hosts a 20MW Tesla battery storage system. The Country Fire Authority (CFA) attended...
A high-voltage electrical transformer at a roadside kiosk on Bannockburn Road, Turramurra, in Sydney's north, caught fire and exploded, with flames spreading towards an adjoining power pole and overhead wires. Fire and Rescue NSW crews attended and found...
A report headlined by The Australian on 18 March 2025 said five solar farms in Australia had been shut down over fire risk. The full article was not accessible, so the sites, their locations, owners and operators, their capacities and the nature of the fire...
A wind turbine at Berrybank Wind Farm, around 80km south-west of Geelong in Victoria, Australia, collapsed after strong gusts and storms. The 112m tall turbine fell, with its blades broken on the ground. The site, operated by Naturgy with Vestas as service...
On 20 February 2025, a fire broke out in the late afternoon at the Raywood solar farm near Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, approximately 155 km northwest of Melbourne, owned by a subsidiary of Sungrow Power Australia Pty Ltd. Energy Safe Victoria said the fire...
A wind turbine blade is reported to have snapped at Flyers Creek Wind Farm in New South Wales during recent storms. A published account says the blade failed about six months after installation. The cause has not been reported, and the available summary does...
A fire was reported at a solar farm in Victoria, Australia, prompting a public warning about toxic smoke. The source article was behind a paywall and bot-detection barrier at the time of review, so the site name, operator, cause, scale, timeline and emergency...
A worker died following an incident at a wind farm near Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia, according to a news report. The article confirming the death was not fully accessible, and available information is limited to a headline stating the fatality and...
The 850MW Waratah Super Battery in New South Wales, Australia, experienced a transformer failure during Hold Point testing as the facility transitioned towards full operational output. Two of the three transformers at the site, manufactured by Wilson...
A fire was reported at a solar farm in the Dubbo area of New South Wales, Australia. A local rescue service chief was quoted saying crews had not been trained for the unique dangers of renewable energy sites. The source article was blocked from full...
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