Incidents recorded in Chile across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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Chile's Investigations Police (PDI) and prosecutors are investigating damage at the Cancura wind farm, in the rural area of Angol in the La Araucanía region, as a suspected arson attack. According to the report, one or more people may have entered the site on...
A grass fire of roughly 1.5 hectares broke out in the Pirque commune near Camino San Vicente de Macul and Camino Los Quillayes. Volunteers from the Puente Alto and Pirque fire services, national forestry agency CONAF, municipal public safety staff and police...
Wildfires advancing across south-central Chile reached infrastructure associated with the Las Lechuzas solar plant in the commune of San Nicolás, Ñuble region. The plant, which feeds about 3,000 households in San Nicolás, San Carlos, Trehuaco and Portezuelo,...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A fire affected a wind farm in Angol, Chile, according to SoyChile, a regional news website. The article, published on 20 October 2026, reports that the fire was presumably extinguished after a hose or pipe in the wind farm's system ruptured, which released...
On 29 December 2025 a fast-spreading wildfire in the commune of Romeral, Curicó, Chile, affected a solar panel park in the area, according to local media. The local emergency coordinator described the solar park as the main concern, with the fire moving along...
A wind turbine manufactured by Vestas caught fire during a rainstorm at Enel Green Power's 24MW Los Buenos Aires wind farm in southern Chile. The brief news report did not specify the exact turbine model, the date of the incident, or whether anyone was...
Wind Power Monthly reported on 30 January 2024 that authorities were investigating why a Nordex turbine had collapsed at a Mainstream Renewable Power wind farm in southern Chile earlier that month. The available text does not name the site, give the date of...
A transformer in Macul, a commune of Santiago, Chile, exploded on or before 25 May 2023. Footage posted on TikTok on that date shows the transformer sparking, followed by a larger explosion. A diagonal beam of light visible in the video was assessed by Lead...
On the evening of 12 November 2019, a fire broke out at the top of the central tower of the Cerro Dominador concentrated solar thermal plant in Antofagasta, northern Chile. The operator announced the fire on its social media account. The source reports that...
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