Grid infrastructure incidents recorded in Brazil, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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A fire at a CEEE Equatorial electricity substation in Canguçu, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, caused several customers in the municipality to lose electricity on Monday 9 November 2026. Smoke filled the substation yard, and a fire brigade team was sent to the...
On the night of Saturday 7 November 2026, a fire followed by a strong explosion was reported at an Âmbar Energia substation on Rua Wilkens de Matos in the Aparecida district of Manaus, Brazil, according to Portal do Zacarias. Residents living nearby told the...
In the early hours of 4 November 2026, an explosion and large fire occurred at a Celesc substation in the Aririú district of Palhoça, in the Greater Florianópolis area of Santa Catarina state, Brazil. The blast and fire cut supply to almost 70,000 consumer...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
In the early hours of 4 November 2026, an explosion followed by a fire occurred at a substation of Centrais Elétricas de Santa Catarina (Celesc) in Palhoça, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Preliminary information indicates the fire began during an attempt to steal...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
An explosion at an energy substation in the municipality of Peritoró, Maranhão, on the night of Wednesday 6 August 2025 caused a blackout in more than ten cities in the central region of the state. Municipalities named in the report include Bacabal, Codó,...
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...
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...
On 3 November 2020 a fire hit the most important substation in the state of Amapá, Brazil, in the North Zone of Macapá. The fire was in the TR1 transformer and also damaged the neighbouring TR2 transformer, which could not then serve part of the load. The...
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