Incidents recorded in China across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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On 7 September 2026 a fire broke out on the rooftop photovoltaic array at Zhongding Road 16, Xihongmen Town, Daxing District, Beijing. The fire was reported at 12:01 and extinguished by 12:30. The affected area measured 100 square metres. No one was injured...
A fire broke out on a mountainside in Heqing, Yunnan, China, and spread to weeds on the slope. The town government stated in its initial investigation that a solar panel fire ignited the vegetation. The fire has since been extinguished. Beijing News reported...
On the afternoon of 21 May 2025, a fire broke out on a photovoltaic noise barrier integrated into the elevated Hongmei South Road expressway in Shanghai's Xuhui District. Thick black smoke rose from the structure and debris fell onto the road below,...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A single trade report, published in November 2025, says three workers died in June 2025 at a wind farm construction site in China. One worker is reported to have entered a wind turbine foundation pit where carbon monoxide had accumulated and to have...
A fishing vessel returning from a trip in the Yellow Sea near China collided with an offshore wind turbine, causing the vessel to sink. Reporting describes the sinking as deadly, indicating one or more fatalities, though the exact number was not specified. An...
Mingyang Smart Energy said that blades fractured on a newly developed wind turbine prototype being tested at its large wind turbine test centre in Lingao, Hainan, China. The company said the turbine was under extreme-condition testing, that the blades met...
On 26 May 2024 a fire broke out in a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery prefabricated cabin at a 70 MW agricultural photovoltaic plus energy storage station in a city in Hainan, China. No casualties were reported. A fire-investigation case analysis...
A peer reviewed engineering investigation, reported in 2024, examined a fire at a rooftop photovoltaic installation in southern China. The investigators combined on site inspection of the fire scene, electroluminescence (EL) imaging of recovered modules and...
An indoor lithium-ion battery energy storage cabinet at Guangtong Logistics Park, Pingbei 2nd Road, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City, caught fire on 19 August 2023. The system comprised five battery cabinets connected in series, with cabinets 1 and 2 involved...
On 22 April 2023 at about 17:56, the Wuwei Fire and Rescue detachment received an alarm about a fire at a battery energy storage station in Minqin County, Wuwei, Gansu. The fire damaged one battery cabin, burned an area of about 30 square metres and caused...
In February 2023, a villager in Qinglong County, Guizhou, China, burned weeds in his own field to clear them. The fire ignited nearby grass, spread, and reached an adjacent photovoltaic (solar) base. The area burned was 47 mu (about 3.1 hectares). The source...
A report dated 21 November 2023 said a wind turbine collapse in China, described as involving a serious casualty, had prompted an order for a day-long local shutdown. The available text does not name the site, the operator or the town, and it does not say...
At around 18:30 on 20 October 2022, a fire broke out in one of ten battery compartments (No. 6) at the 25MW/50MWh energy storage system forming part of the Hainan Tianneng Yingge Haiyanchang 100MW photovoltaic project energy storage power station in...
On 25 July 2021 the wind turbine installation vessel Sheng Ping 001 tilted while being used in the final phases of construction at China General Nuclear Power Group's 250MW Huizhou Gangkou I offshore wind farm in the South China Sea. The vessel, owned by...
In April 2021 a fire was reported at approximately 12:17 local time in a 25 MWh lithium iron phosphate battery energy storage system installed on the rooftop of a commercial premises in Beijing, China. The system formed part of an integrated solar, storage...
In October 2021, Seaway 7 reported an incident involving the main crane on Alfa Lift, a foundation installation vessel for offshore wind, then under construction at the China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) shipyard in Jiangsu, China. The company said there...
On 21 December 2017 a fire was reported at a lithium battery energy storage power station of a power plant in Shanxi, China, and was reported to have burned the No. 2 energy storage container. The same station was reported to have had a fire in a group of...
At 19:57 on 4 April 2017 a fire broke out in the UPS room of the network data centre at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. The university cut the power immediately after being alerted and activated its fire emergency plan. Fire and police...
On 7 March 2017 a fire broke out in a group of lithium battery containers at a lithium-ion battery energy storage power station in Shanxi, China. The source, a Chinese fire-safety industry article citing a list of energy storage fires, does not name the...
A substation in Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, China, was reported to have exploded at about 00:25 on 18 June 2016 after a breakdown, and to have caught fire. The fire was reported extinguished in about one hour. A sudden blackout was reported to have affected...
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