Grid infrastructure incidents recorded in India, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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A powerful explosion occurred in an electricity transformer at the eighth cross of KTJ Nagar in Davanagere, India, according to a report by The Siasat Daily that cites CCTV footage. The blast was followed by a large burst of flames that engulfed an adjoining...
According to a Hindi-language local report published on 30 October 2026, rain linked to a storm reported as Cyclone Arnab disrupted the electricity supply in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. The report says power was cut for several hours in areas including Shahpur,...
On 30 October 2026, rain disrupted the electricity supply in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, according to a Jagran report. Several localities, including Shahpur, Rapti Nagar, Durgabari, Surajkund, Rustampur and Rani Bagh, lost power for hours. The report...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On a Friday morning around 9am, a cable on a transformer in the Vijay Chowk feeder area, served by the University substation in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, caught fire. The fire was intense enough that the fire brigade was called. According to the report, the...
Early on Monday morning, 26 October 2026, a short circuit in the wires on an electricity pole in B-Block of Shalimar Garden Extension-2, Sahibabad, in Ghaziabad, set the wires on fire. A local organiser reported that the fire started at about 4:30 am. The...
Around 1 am on Wednesday 21 October 2026, according to a report published on 22 October, an unidentified person set fire to rubbish lying on a road near the Maharaja Doodh Dairy in the Nazirabad police station area of Kanpur, close to the Ashok Nagar petrol...
Fires in an underground power cable and in the lead of a distribution transformer interrupted electricity supply in the Kalimahal and Chetganj areas of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, over the weekend of 17 and 18 October 2026. In Kalimahal, an underground cable...
On Friday evening, 16 October 2026, a technical fault occurred at the Amda substation in the Barhani area of Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh, according to local press. The fault cut supply on all 10 feeders connected to the substation, leaving about 120...
A transformer at a 132 kV substation opposite the Old College in Narwana, Jind, caught fire suddenly on Wednesday 14 October 2026, according to a local report published by Atal Hind. Flames were reported to be visible from several parts of the town. Five to...
On a Monday evening in October 2026, a short circuit set fire to electricity wires strung on poles at Dubagga, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Local residents telephoned the substation and asked for supply to be switched off. Electricity workers attended the site,...
On a Sunday morning in October 2026, a short circuit on a 440 volt electricity supply line caused the wire to catch fire at Maranchi Durga Chowk, within the Hathidah electricity substation area in Patna, Bihar. Smoke and flames from the wire alarmed nearby...
On Friday 9 October 2026, a substation operator was killed while adding a jumper to a 33 kV line at the Auras power house in Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh. The operator suffered severe burns and his body caught fire. Bystanders put out the fire and took him...
A transformer box on a footpath outside Amazon’s office on Baglur Main Road in Bengaluru exploded, injuring two pedestrians. One suffered severe burns to the hands after falling in the blast, and the other sustained minor injuries. A student walking nearby...
Four people suffered severe burn injuries after a high-capacity electricity transformer exploded near a Coca-Cola warehouse in Benniganahalli, Bengaluru, on the afternoon of 6 October 2026. The incident was reported to have occurred between 12.30 pm and 1 pm...
On Wednesday morning a fire was reported in the incoming machine of the Chilsara feeder at the Husainpur Tarai electricity substation in Shamsabad, Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Power to 24 villages was reported to have stayed off through the day....
On a Wednesday afternoon, a transformer at the electrical substation on the medical college campus in Hardoi caught fire. The report says a sudden increase in load was followed by smoke and flames from the transformer leads and cables. Electricity department...
On 29 September 2026 a cable caught fire in Teen Khamba Wali Gali, in the area served by the Bahadurganj electrical substation in Shahjahanpur, India. An electricity corporation team attended and repaired the cable. Supply in that area was reported off from...
A transformer exploded on 20 September 2026 in the Hemband Khar area of Mohtara village, Bemetara district, Chhattisgarh, India. Hot oil and flames from the transformer spread into a nearby field where three farmers were working. They suffered severe burns,...
One worker was killed and two others injured after a transformer exploded during repair work in Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, on 23 September 2026. Police said several workers, including electricity department contractors and a private contractor,...
A technical fault led to an explosion in a medium voltage current transformer and breaker unit at the Chinchwad Extra High Voltage Substation in Chinchwad, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune, Maharashtra, operated by Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission, triggering...
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