Incidents recorded in France across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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On the evening of Friday 30 October 2026, a fire broke out at the top of a wind turbine at the La Chapelle-Gaudin wind farm in Argentonnay, Deux-Sèvres, France. Local media reported an orange fireball and a plume of smoke. Firefighters from the Deux-Sèvres...
A fire broke out at a 20,000-volt electricity substation on rue Azarias-Selle in Bolbec on Monday 12 October 2026, shortly before 7.30pm. Residents reported a strong smell of burning. The fire caused a power cut across the surrounding area, leaving 61 homes...
According to a local news report, a fire broke out on an electrical transformer outside the Edmond Rostand school in Bergerac, Dordogne, France, on the evening of Thursday 8 October 2026. The report cites Bergerac town hall as saying the fire followed an...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A fire broke out on 16 September 2026 at a solar farm in the Landes department of France and spread into surrounding forest, having already destroyed more than 100 hectares. The fire service described the situation as very serious because of nearby...
A wildfire that started on 4 July 2026 at Trévillach, in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France, and later spread towards the Ille-sur-Têt area, reached an 11 MWc solar photovoltaic plant operated by Luxel. The wider fire burned around 5,000 hectares,...
In the night of 25 to 26 July 2026, a wildfire that had been burning across Gironde for about a week reached the Cestas solar plant, described as the largest in France at 300 MW and located between Bordeaux and Arcachon. Flames approaching from the west came...
A transformer operated by RTE, France's electricity transmission system operator, failed on Tuesday evening at around 9 p.m. at Ergué-Gabéric, a commune near Quimper in Finistère. The failure cut power to up to 106,000 customers. By Wednesday morning,...
A transformer caught fire at the Cattenom nuclear power plant in France on a Tuesday afternoon, shortly after 5pm, near reactor 3. According to an official statement, an automatic extinguishing system brought the flames quickly under control. Fire crews from...
A short news video report published by Orange Actualités on 12 October 2026 says a fire at an RTE electrical substation led to a complete interruption of train traffic at Paris Montparnasse station. The report says traffic was gradually resuming and that a...
A wind turbine believed to belong to the Anoux wind farm near Briey, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department close to the Luxembourg border, caught fire on a Thursday evening in January 2025. Flames burst from the top of the turbine with burning debris falling...
On the morning of Thursday 21 March 2024 a small fire broke out in the room that houses the batteries for the emergency power supply at a GoDaddy data centre in Strasbourg, France, according to a GoDaddy spokesperson. The company said the fire was quickly...
A fire broke out in a container of lithium-ion batteries at the Claudia battery energy storage facility in Saucats (Barban), Gironde, France, which was in the process of being commissioned. The site is operated and owned by Amarenco, with the battery system...
On 25 April 2023, a cooling system water pipe leak occurred at the Global Switch data centre in the Clichy commune of Paris. The leak originated in a non-Google part of the facility and entered a UPS battery room, where it caused a fire. Google Cloud reported...
In 2023 a fire broke out in a lithium-ion battery storage container at a co-located solar generation site in Aghione, Haute-Corse, France. The battery system was reported to be at about 95% state of charge at the time. An automatic inert gas suppression...
A fire severely damaged the Maxnod data centre at Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans in the Ain department of France on 28 March 2023, and the facility was taken offline. The 800 square metre building's structure was reported as compromised, and initial estimates...
At the Poggio-di-Nazza solar and storage site in Poggio-di-Nazza, Corsica, France, operated by SUN'R and SPES de Corse (also the site owner), and fitted with two lithium-ion battery storage containers using LG Chem battery modules integrated by Nidec ASI, a...
At about 14:45 on 8 March 2022, a fuel oil leak occurred in the generator room of a data processing site in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, according to the French accident database ARIA. The backup generator was running with a continuous demand for fuel....
A fire broke out on 30 January 2022 at the O'Mega 1 floating solar plant in Piolenc, Vaucluse, southeastern France, operated by developer Akuo. Storm winds from the North Sea, with gusts up to 80 km/h, exposed the water body to several days of violent wind....
On Friday 19 March 2021, at about 6.50pm local time, OVHcloud staff at its SBG1 data centre in Strasbourg, France, identified smoke in a battery room that was not connected to the data centre's power systems. The company said the smoke came from batteries...
At about 00:40 on 10 March 2021 a fire broke out in the power supply room of the SBG2 data centre on the OVHcloud site in Strasbourg. Firefighters reported electrical arcs, and power could not be isolated promptly, which the reporting links to the fire...
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