Incidents recorded in Canada across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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A man in his forties died after a fall while carrying out tasks inside a wind turbine on the Pohénégamook-Picard-Saint-Antonin-Wolastokuk (PPAW) construction site, in the chemin Champoux sector, on 27 September 2026. Emergency services attended and he was...
A fire broke out in the early hours at a battery storage unit forming part of the Summerside Sunbank solar power farm, a municipal solar facility owned and operated by the City of Summerside in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Emergency services...
A fire broke out at the top of a wind turbine tower at the Pubnico Point Wind Farm in West Pubnico, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the evening. By the time fire crews arrived, the nacelle, hub and blades were fully alight. Firefighters were unable to reach the...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A fire broke out at an electrical transformer in downtown Toronto, Canada, knocking out power to hundreds of customers in the surrounding area. The fire was reported on 26 May 2026. This is based on a single brief news report; the exact location, the utility...
On 16 March 2026 a blade detached from a turbine at the Wolfe Island Wind Farm in Ontario, Canada, after a weekend of powerful gusts. The nose cone also detached and was reported to have landed about 100 metres away. TransAlta said the site was taken offline...
Algoma Steel Group, based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, reported an unplanned outage at its Lake Superior Power generating facility. One turbine unit detected an abnormal condition and went offline. The company said the remaining units were unaffected....
On the afternoon of 27 October 2025, a single vehicle struck a hydro pole on Dundas Street in the Old East Village area of London, Ontario. The pole was knocked down at about 2:20 p.m. More than 400 people were left without hydro. Police closed Dundas Street...
On the morning of 2 July 2025, an explosion and fire occurred at a power substation on O'Neil Drive in the Garson community of Greater Sudbury, Ontario. Amateur video captured the blast shortly before 6 a.m. local time. The event caused widespread power...
Fire crews responded to a blaze at SimTech Supply Chain Management at 215 Gilbert St, West Lorne, Ontario, Canada. Multiple departments attended after reports of smoke and flames from the rooftop. The fire involved the roof structure and solar panels...
At approximately 5:03pm on a Saturday evening, the hub of a wind turbine at the 99MW Erie Shores Wind Farm in Ontario detached from the tower and fell to the ground with all three blades still attached. The site, owned and operated by Capstone Infrastructure,...
Around 2,600 Nova Scotia Power customers near Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, lost power after a power line caught fire on a Sunday morning in January 2025. Fire crews put out a small fire from a downed line on the front lawn of a house on Sea King...
CTV News reported that a transformer caught fire in Cambridge on Sunday, and published video of the fire. The available text does not say whether anyone was hurt, whether power was lost, or what caused the fire.
CTV News reported that an electrical transformer exploded in the Forest Hill area of Toronto and that no injuries were reported. The cause, the operator, whether there was a fire or a power cut, and the extent of any damage were not reported in the available...
Tower 33 at the Halkirk 2 wind project near Castor fell on 8 November 2024 while the recently constructed site was being brought online and introducing power to Alberta's grid. The collapse caused a complete loss of the tower and a suspension order for the...
A single 40 foot lithium-ion battery energy storage container, roughly three years old and used for peak shaving, caught fire at a commercial site in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. The fire department attended and the cause remained under investigation at the...
A worker died on 18 July at a wind farm construction site near Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada, in what officials described as a workplace incident. Following an investigation, provincial workplace safety authorities imposed a fine of CA$25,000 on Windturbine...
A transformer fire was reported near 800 Murray Street in Midway, British Columbia, on 23 April 2024. FortisBC said the fire started at 6:50 a.m. and knocked out power to about 1,000 customers between Rock Creek and Greenwood. By late morning the utility said...
Early on a Sunday morning, hydro lines caught fire near Palmer Rapids after a transformer exploded at a residence in the area of Cottage Lane and Wishman Road. The local fire service was called after residents heard an explosion, but the fire continued until...
A transformer fire broke out at around 7 a.m. near City Hall Square in Windsor. The fire caused a power outage that shut down services at 350 and 400 City Hall Square for the day. Affected services included Service Canada, Service Ontario, the Ontario Court...
A short published report says a nacelle and rotor fell off a Vestas turbine at a wind farm in Canada. The project developer was reported to have paused operations and remaining construction. The wind farm, the turbine model and the cause were not stated in...
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