Incidents recorded in Brazil across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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A fire broke out at a substation operated by CPFL (Companhia Paulista de Força e Luz) in Ipuã, Brazil, on the morning of Friday 23 October 2026, at about the end of the morning. Residents lost electricity. Images circulating on social media showed fire at the...
According to a report published by nativacapinzal.net on 20 October 2026, a short circuit in the solar energy system at the Municipal Gymnasium in Peritiba is reported to have started a fire at the building. Only the headline and a short summary were...
On the morning of Tuesday 13 October 2026, a lightning strike hit equipment at a Copel substation supplying the municipality of Mamborê, in the Centro-Oeste region of Paraná, Brazil. The strike produced an electric arc in components of the unit, causing a...
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A fire, described by the distributor as brief and quickly controlled, broke out at the Amaralia substation on Sunday 11 October 2026 and interrupted power to the neighbourhoods of Amaralina, Pituba, Caminho das Árvores and the surrounding area. Videos shared...
A fire broke out at the Amaralina substation in Salvador, Bahia, on the afternoon of Sunday 11 October 2026, according to Jornal Correio. The fire interrupted electricity supply to customers in Amaralina, Pituba, Caminho das Árvores and the surrounding area....
A large fire broke out at the Fazenda Solar Órigo, a solar farm beside the CE-257 road near the roundabout in Santa Quitéria, Brazil, on the afternoon of Friday 9 October 2026. The source describes it as the largest solar farm in the municipality by number of...
According to a local news report published on 9 October 2026, a vegetation fire broke out at about 18:00 on Thursday 8 October 2026 near the Campo do Carrapato, beside Avenida Alberto Giovanini in the Bethânia district of Ipatinga, Minas Gerais. The report...
An incipient fire on the afternoon of 27 September 2026 affected part of the roof of Hospital Municipal Dr. Mário Gatti in Campinas, in the area where photovoltaic panels for the hospital's solar system are installed. Firefighters reported that a...
On the afternoon of 22 September 2026, an incipient fire at a residence on Rua Santa Cecília, in the Canafístula neighbourhood of Arapiraca, Alagoas, reached equipment in the property's solar energy system, according to the fire service. The owner had already...
Birds on the electrical network caused a fault at Subestação Carajás. The incident led to a power outage affecting parts of Goiânia and Aparecida de Goiânia on the evening of 22 September. The interruption lasted approximately nine minutes. EDP worked to...
At around 11:50 on Saturday 11 April 2026, firefighters from the Corpo de Bombeiros Militar de Mato Grosso (CBMMT) were called to a fire at a building in the Parque das Araras neighbourhood of Sinop, Mato Grosso, about 500 km from Cuiabá. The 4th Military...
A failure at the Cachoeira Grande substation in Manaus, Brazil, caused a power cut affecting several neighbourhoods of the city, according to a report published by AM POST on 13 October 2026. The headline and feed summary are the only information available...
A fire occurred in a reactor at a transmission substation in Southern Brazil, part of a grid network associated with Eletrobras, causing the facility to shut down and the region to disconnect from the wider system. The affected region had been exporting a...
On Tuesday 8 July 2025, two workers were seriously injured in an explosion and electric shock at a solar plant in the city of Anastácio, Mato Grosso do Sul, about 145 kilometres from Campo Grande, according to JD1 Notícias. The two workers were carrying out...
On Wednesday 25 June 2025, an explosion followed by a fire occurred at a power substation on the Pici Campus of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) in Fortaleza, Ceará. The incident frightened students, staff and nearby residents. The substation is next to...
Wind Power Monthly reported on 28 October 2025 that a worker had died after a wind turbine caught fire in southern Brazil. The available text does not give the site, the operator, the date of the fire, or how the fire and the death occurred.
On Saturday 2 November 2024, fire crews were sent to a solar power plant in Bataguassu, Mato Grosso do Sul, after the plant's monitoring centre detected signs of smoke. On arrival, crews found that the fire was concentrated in vegetation around and beneath...
A small solar plant in the Jardim dos Ypês neighbourhood of Sorriso, Mato Grosso, was largely destroyed by fire on the morning of Monday 20 May 2024. The installation had 88 solar panels, according to a fire service lieutenant who spoke to the Só Notícias...
A fire damaged a solar power plant in the Derrubada area of São José do Cedro, in western Santa Catarina state, Brazil, on Monday 5 February 2024. The fire brigade was called shortly after 13:00. According to the local news site Oeste Mais, the flames started...
In the early hours of Monday 5 February 2024, an explosion and fire occurred at an Energisa power substation in Vila Progresso, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Residents reported the explosion at around 4:30 am. A man died at the scene. The main...
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