Incidents recorded in the United Kingdom across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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Homes in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, lost power on the evening of 29 October 2026 after an electrical transformer caught fire on Hensington Road. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service attended and extinguished the fire. Thames Valley Police's Woodstock...
At about 11.10pm on Thursday 22 October 2026, an explosion involving equipment on an electricity pylon in Grantham, Lincolnshire, damaged a vehicle and two nearby properties. National Grid has confirmed a fault involving equipment on one of its pylons in...
At around 05:00 on Wednesday 21 October 2026, a fault at the Ferryhill substation on Deemount Gardens in Ferryhill, Aberdeen, caused a small fire in the building. Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was alerted at 05:06 and sent two appliances, which...
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On 13 October 2026, UK Power Networks engineers were called to a fire at a substation in the Beetons Way area of Bury St Edmunds at 9.56am. UK Power Networks said its teams were working with the fire service to make the equipment safe. Power was interrupted...
On 21 September 2026, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service was called at 2.26pm to a bungalow in Yardlands, Sidmouth, whose roof was fully involved in fire. The service later said crews confirmed the fire started within the solar panels on the roof and...
Surrey Fire and Rescue Service was called at 4.30pm on 21 September 2026 to a fire at an electricity substation on Caterfield Road in Oxted. Two fire engines attended. Caterfield Lane was closed in both directions between Red Lane and Park Road. The service...
On the evening of Thursday 17 September, one of the 215 turbines at Whitelee Windfarm near Glasgow caught fire. Pictures shared with the reporting newspaper showed the turbine's charred head and blackened blades on the roughly 65-metre-tall hub, described as...
A fire broke out at Hermes Road substation, an electricity substation in a residential area of Saltford, Bath, during the morning. Emergency services attended and used high pressure hose reels and covering jets to extinguish the blaze. Nearby residents were...
Firefighters from several Devon stations attended a rapidly spreading fire under solar panels at Broadclyst on the morning of 24 August 2026. Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service received multiple calls just before 11am reporting a blaze initially...
More than 600 households lost power after an electrical substation caught fire in Bridge Place, Godmanchester, on 4 August 2026. Two fire crews from Huntingdon attended, used breathing apparatus and a hose reel to extinguish the blaze, and cleared smoke with...
A fire broke out at Bellshill substation on Clay Crescent, Bellshill, Glasgow, with reports of smoke prompting an emergency response. Fire crews attended and extinguished the blaze using two appliances. The incident caused a power outage affecting more than...
On the evening of 21 August, a fire broke out at a wind turbine substation at a wind farm in Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service confirmed firefighters were called at 7.50pm to a fire involving a wind turbine substation. Ten...
Firefighters were called to a blaze at Wheat Leasows solar farm in Hortonwood, Telford, reported at about 2pm on 23 August 2026. A fire service spokesperson said the incident involved grass, hedgerows, an electrical pylon and electrics which were on fire. Two...
A fire broke out in the loft of a house on Whitley Road in Ball Green, Stoke-on-Trent. The alarm was raised at 9.35pm on 23 July. Two fire appliances attended and found a small fire, which was extinguished with a hose reel jet. The cause was determined to be...
On 8 July 2026 a fire broke out at the Springwood ward, a mental health unit at Malton Hospital in North Yorkshire, operated by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. The building was evacuated safely and no one was harmed. North Yorkshire Fire and...
A fire occurred at the Garriochmill Way / Henderson Street substation in the Kelvinbridge/Maryhill area of Glasgow, Scotland, during the early evening. Emergency services attended after residents reported hearing a loud bang, with one witness describing it as...
In 2026, a fire broke out at New Milton substation, adjacent to a railway line in New Milton, Hampshire, United Kingdom. Emergency services were called after reports of smoke shortly after 06:30 local time. Fire crews used ventilation fans to clear smoke from...
A fire broke out at Weymouth substation, adjacent to a coastal visitor attraction in Weymouth, Dorset, England. The blaze produced large plumes of black smoke visible for miles and spread into nearby vegetation before being brought under control. Around 40...
An electricity substation on Crowdale Road, Bratton, near Wellington, Telford, serving a residential estate overheated, causing a trip in the electrical supply. The fire and rescue service was called and a crew attended the site, but found that no...
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service received multiple calls to a building fire on Carroll Street in Market Harborough. Crews reported that one two-storey domestic dwelling was involved in a fire involving solar panels, with fire on the first floor and the...
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