Incidents recorded in Ireland across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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A major power outage affected more than 10,000 customers in Tralee, County Kerry, after equipment at a substation caught fire. ESB Networks, the operator, confirmed the fire as the cause of the disruption. Crews mobilised immediately to assess the damage,...
Residents near the Echelon Data Centre in Clondalkin Industrial Estate reported intrusive noise during repeated night-time start-ups, loud enough to be heard through double glazing. Witnesses also reported thick black smoke from generator chimneys. A resident...
A thunderstorm brought very large numbers of lightning strikes across Ireland from Sunday evening into Monday morning, and Met Éireann issued weather alerts. Many areas, including Co Galway, were left without power, though the source does not link those...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On 19 October 2022, a vessel passing Arklow Bank reported a wind turbine on fire at the Arklow Bank Offshore Windfarm in the Irish Sea, off Arklow, Co Wicklow. The Department of Transport said the Marine Rescue Coordination Centre in Dublin contacted the...
At about 1.30pm on Thursday 19 July 2018, a man was injured in an industrial accident on a wind farm at Mountainlodge, Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland. It is understood he was operating a teleporter at the time. A spokesperson for the Health and Safety...
A Vestas V52-850kW wind turbine at the Loughderryduff wind farm, near Ardara and Glenties in County Donegal, collapsed at approximately 17:00 on 21 March 2013 during what Vestas described as very high winds, reported at around 25 m/s (56mph). Wreckage was...
A Vestas V52-850kW turbine at the Loughderryduff wind farm in County Donegal, Ireland, collapsed in March 2013 during high winds. An investigation by Vestas found that an error in the turbine's pitch system meant at least one blade failed to pitch out of the...
At 18:16 local time on Sunday 7 August 2011, a 110kV transformer operated by ESB Networks failed at Citywest, Dublin, Ireland. The failure caused an explosion and fire, which ESB said were localised to the transformer's bushings or insulators, and serious...
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