Incidents recorded in Germany across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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In the night to Sunday, which local reporting gives as 25 October 2026, a wind turbine collapsed and fell onto two fields in Weeze, in the Kreis Kleve district of Germany, according to a local report by NRZ. The report says that much about the incident...
On a Wednesday afternoon in October 2026, a smouldering fire broke out in a battery installation at a data centre on Nonnendammallee in Spandau, Berlin, according to BZ Berlin. The fire did not start in the server room but in an adjacent technical area....
On 18 October 2026, a further power failure occurred at the Linden substation in the Dithmarschen district of western Schleswig-Holstein, operated by SH Netz (Schleswig-Holstein Netz). The failure followed an earlier power cut in the west of the state and led...
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Local media report an explosion at the substation near Friedrichstadt in the Nordfriesland area of northern Germany, reported on 18 October 2026. The explosion was followed by a large-scale power outage. Several fire service operations were reported across...
Overnight, reported by police on 16 October 2026, the trailer of a heavy-load transporter left a gravel forest track near the Hohe Molmert wind park, near Plettenberg in the Märkischer Kreis, Germany. The trailer was carrying a wind turbine blade weighing...
On 25 September 2026 at approximately 13:10, a fire occurred in the battery storage unit of a solar installation at a food factory on Robert-Georgi-Weg in Reichenbach, OT Mylau. The fire was extinguished by fire services from Reichenbach and Obermylau, with...
A fire broke out overnight at a construction site in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, Germany, and spread to a nearby electricity substation. Approximately 50 firefighters responded to bring the blaze under control. Police cordoned off a wide area while...
A substation incident in Germany led to five lignite-fired power generating units operated by RWE being disconnected from the electricity grid. The report, carried by a financial news wire, did not specify the exact location of the substation within Germany,...
At about 14:00 on Sunday 5 July 2026, a rotor blade became detached from a wind turbine at the Waldhausen wind farm at Aalen-Waldhausen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The blade fell to the ground directly beneath the turbine. Statkraft, which operates the...
On 22 July 2026 a blade failure was detected on one of the Vestas V236-15 turbines at EnBW's 960MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, which is currently under construction. EnBW said the relevant authorities were notified immediately....
A fire broke out at a lithium-ion battery energy storage system housed in four shipping containers in Bautzen, Germany, in July 2026. The site had a stated capacity of 1.5 MW. Firefighters could not directly extinguish the fire due to the characteristics of...
A fire broke out in the transformer room of a substation on Kleistweg in Offenburg, Germany, according to the local fire service. Parts of the Oststadt district were briefly without electricity. Nobody was hurt. The report, published by the regional news site...
On Sunday 14 June 2026, the nacelle of a wind turbine at Bönen, near the boundary with Hamm in North Rhine-Westphalia, caught fire at a height of about 95 metres. One of the turbine's 45-metre rotor blades also burned, and the cladding of the nacelle burned...
A fire broke out at an electricity substation in southwestern Germany in the early hours of Monday, 8 June 2026, cutting power to thousands of customers in the area. Local city authorities confirmed the outage and linked it to the fire at the substation. Grid...
A fire broke out on 5 June in a wooden shed at a single-family home in Bentwisch, near Rostock, Germany. A battery energy storage system installed at the property had overheated before fire crews arrived. While firefighters were working to extinguish the...
On the evening of Saturday 23 May 2026, a wind turbine more than 100 metres high between Repperndorf and Biebelried, near Kitzingen in Bavaria, caught fire beside the A7 motorway. Several road users reported heavy smoke from the turbine, and fire services...
At about 19:30 on Monday 2 March 2026 the power failed at the data centre of the municipal IT service provider Regio IT in Aachen, Germany. The emergency generator started, but it did not prevent damage. A central network component failed and the systems went...
On Wednesday 18 March 2026, at about 09:00, a rotor blade roughly 60 metres long and weighing about 15 tonnes broke off a Senvion wind turbine at the Bürgerwindpark Berching, in the Neumarkt district of the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. The blade fell...
In the early hours of Monday 30 March 2026, at about 00:45, the nacelle of a wind turbine beside the road between Crostwitz and Sibnitz in the Bautzen district of Saxony, Germany, was fully on fire. The turbine was about 25 years old, was not in operation and...
On the morning of Monday 2 February 2026, the nacelle of a wind turbine at the Bürgerwindpark Fehmarn caught fire at a height of about 99 metres. The community wind farm on the island of Fehmarn in Schleswig-Holstein has seven turbines and has been in...
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