Incidents recorded in Belgium across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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On a Monday afternoon, a fire broke out in one of the inverters serving the solar panels on an intermediate floor of the Kühne+Nagel distribution centre on Industrieweg in Tessenderlo, Belgium, according to HBVL. The fire produced a large amount of smoke. A...
An Enercon wind turbine technician was seriously injured at a wind farm in Belgium after his arm became trapped in a generator, according to a short published report. The site, the date of the incident and how the arm became trapped are not stated in the text...
Emergency services responded to a fire at solar panels forming part of the facade at a seven-storey office building in central Brussels on 22 October 2024. The fire triggered the building alarm, leading to a full evacuation. Fire crews used ladders, pumps and...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
The export cable running from the Rentel offshore wind farm platform to the Belgian mainland was reported damaged. The 309 MW wind farm continued to feed electricity into the grid through an alternative route via the Modular Offshore Grid offshore power hub,...
A fire broke out in the battery energy storage system at the Proxy Delhaize supermarket in Braives, Belgium, on the morning of 26 or 27 December 2023. The store had installed eight lithium ion battery units with a combined capacity of 144 kWh outside the...
Local press reported a fire in a Proximus data centre at its Brussels buildings in Evere. The fire was detected around 9am and prompted a brief evacuation of staff. Belgian federal police said emergency numbers 112, 101 and 100 were unavailable. Numbers 112...
A lithium-ion battery energy storage system at Drogenbos, Belgium, is recorded as having failed on 11 November 2017. The system is listed at 6 MW and as used for frequency regulation. About 1 per cent of installed capacity is recorded as damaged. The failure...
At 09:19 PDT on 13 August 2015, four successive lightning strikes hit the local utilities grid supplying Google's European data centre in St. Ghislain, Belgium, within the europe-west1-b zone. The strikes caused a brief loss of power to storage systems...
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