Grid infrastructure incidents recorded in Spain, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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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...
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 record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
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 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...
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...
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