Grid infrastructure incidents recorded in the United Kingdom, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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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...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Emergency services were called to reports of an explosion at a distribution substation in a residential area of Southampton, United Kingdom, on a Saturday evening. Fire crews attended and carried out thermal imaging checks but found no signs of smoke or fire....
Firefighters were called to an electricity substation near Burford village hall, close to Tenbury Wells, after a twin pole-mounted transformer was found to be alight. The fire spread from the transformer to nearby hedgerow and undergrowth. Two fire appliances...
A substation on Gloucester Close in the Queens Crescent area of Chippenham, Wiltshire, caught fire and exploded shortly after 6pm on 6 January 2026. At least one explosion was heard as the fire broke out, knocking out power to hundreds of homes in the town....
A fire was reported at a substation in Walsall, and a large cordon was put in place. Two men were reported to have been left with serious injuries. The available report does not state the cause, the operator, or whether power supply was affected.
A fire broke out at an electricity substation in Yate, South Gloucestershire, with local residents reporting hearing explosions and seeing thick black smoke rising from the site. Emergency services attended the scene to respond to the incident. The news...
A fire was reported involving an underground electricity substation close to a fuel station in Stockport, Greater Manchester, based on a Facebook video shared by Manchester Evening News. Footage showed flames rising from below ground level near the petrol...
In 2026, a fire was reported at an electricity substation close to the seafront of a coastal town in southern England. The only available reporting is a headline, so the cause, scale and duration of the fire are not known. It is not reported whether supply to...
An electrical substation in the car park of Rock Court Surgery, a GP practice and walk-in centre on St Oswalds Street in Old Swan, Liverpool, exploded and caught fire on a Wednesday morning. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service crews arrived within nine minutes...
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