Incidents recorded in Spain across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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A fire broke out at about 19:14 in a storage premises (bajera) of a building on calle Basilio Armendáriz in Burlada, Navarre, Spain. The fire affected an electricity transformer and caused a power cut to several neighbouring entrances (portales). Several...
In the early hours of 12 October 2026, at about 01:45, a fire broke out at the El Algar electrical substation in Alicante province, Spain. The substation supplies drinking water to several municipalities in the Marina Baixa comarca. The fire damaged the 10 MW...
A wind turbine at a wind farm on the Cruz de Hierro pass, in Aldeavieja, Ávila province, Castilla y León, caught fire on Monday 12 October 2026. Emergency calls to the 112 service reported the fire at about 11:08 local time. The incident prompted a response...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A fire broke out at a solar panel installation located next to a farmhouse in the municipality of La Serratella, in the province of Castellon, Spain, reported on 10 October 2026. The Consorcio Provincial de Bomberos de Castellon reported that two fire crews...
On 3 October 2026, a fault in the 66 kV network at the Mácher substation in Tías, Lanzarote, disconnected about 51,700 customers at 5.44am local time, according to Canarian Weekly as reported by The Cool Down. Within four minutes a further failure at the San...
The Consorcio Provincial de Bomberos de València extinguished a low vegetation fire at a photovoltaic plant in Jarafuel, in the Casa Mojón area, on the afternoon of Sunday 27 September 2026. The call was received at 16.36. The response included one officer,...
A fire broke out at the Sirius Solar photovoltaic plant in the municipality of Zamora, Spain, on the afternoon of 20 September 2026. The regional forest-fire service recorded the start at 18:20 and classed the fire at potential gravity index 0, a rating it...
A vegetation fire broke out on the CA-4107 road between Torrecera and Paterna de Rivera at kilometre 6. The blaze affected around 15,000 square metres and reached vegetation at the Arcos 4 and Arcos 5 photovoltaic plants in the municipality of Jerez....
A fire broke out on 25 July 2026 at the electricity substation that supplies Don Benito, a town in Extremadura, Spain. The fire caused significant damage to the installations. Supply was restored, but not all the backup systems and alternative feed...
A fire broke out around 13:00 on 22 July 2026 at a photovoltaic plant in the municipality of Puertollano, central Spain, and affected around 90 hectares. The mayor said it originated in one of the large photovoltaic installations next to the N-420 highway....
A piece of electricity network equipment, believed to be a transformer, caught fire in Guargacho, South Tenerife, within the municipality of Arona, shortly after 7.30pm on a Thursday evening. The fire destroyed the equipment and cut power to thousands of...
On 10 June 2026, a fire affected a photovoltaic inverter at a solar park beside the LR-285 road, near kilometre 2, in the municipality of Alfaro, La Rioja, Spain. The alarm was raised by a member of the public shortly after 11:00 to the regional emergency...
On the afternoon of Sunday 31 May 2026, a fire that began as a forest fire in a wooded area near the Solúcar solar plant in Sanlúcar la Mayor, Seville, spread to the plant. Flames advanced on several fronts and partly affected the installation, mainly because...
A vegetation fire broke out within a photovoltaic plant about 2 km south of Villamediana, in Spain's Palencia province, and was reported at 12:49 p.m. local time. The Civil Guard, the Palencia Provincial Council Fire Department, Castilla y León environmental...
Reporting states that three men broke into a GE Vernova wind turbine in Spain and that one of them was fatally electrocuted. The Spanish Civil Guard inspected the turbine where the incident took place. Arrests have been reported in connection with the death....
In April 2025 a system collapse affected the Iberian Peninsula, a synchronously connected region in south-west Europe covering Spain and Portugal. Public reporting stated that around 60 percent of national demand in Spain, the larger of the two countries, was...
An explosion and fire occurred in a containerised lithium-ion battery energy storage system colocated with a solar photovoltaic installation at the Port of Gandia solar and storage installation in Port of Gandia, Valencia, Spain, an installation integrated by...
A fire was reported inside the Francisco Pizarro photovoltaic plant, which lies between the municipal areas of Torrecillas de la Tiesa and Aldeacentenera in Extremadura, Spain. Pv magazine España reported in July 2025 that the plant is owned by Iberdrola, has...
In June 2025 a forest fire burned roughly 800 hectares of pasture, crops, holm oak forest and scrubland near Casas de Don Pedro in Badajoz province, Spain. According to SEPRONA, the Civil Guard's nature protection service, forensic inspection found that the...
Two workers at a wind farm in Navarre, Spain, were rushed to hospital by Navarre emergency services after a reported turbine explosion. One person was reported to have suffered second-degree burns. The published account says details of the circumstances are...
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