A fire broke out at an electrical cabin on Via Fontana in Capriati a Volturno, Caserta province, Italy, at about 3am during the night of 29 to 30 October 2026. Residents saw the flames and alerted the emergency number 115. A crew from the Piedimonte Matese...
Energy incidents: Italy
Incidents recorded in Italy across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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Firefighters attended a fire involving a photovoltaic installation on a residential property in via Cagnola, Castelfranco Emilia, on 25 September 2026. The blaze was extinguished and no injuries were recorded. The fire did not spread to the rest of the...
At 16.00 on 23 September 2026 firefighters from Ascoli responded to a fire inside a cabin containing the transformer of a photovoltaic plant between the localities of Rovecciano and San Barnaba in Offida. Crews extinguished the flames with foam. They then...
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At about 12.15 on Saturday 15 August, firefighters were alerted to a fire in the built-up area of Pederobba, in the province of Treviso, Italy. Thick smoke and flames developed from the photovoltaic system on the roof of a house. According to initial...
A 25-year-old maintenance worker died after reportedly being pulled into the motor mechanism of a turbine blade while carrying out maintenance work at the 'Aria del Vento' wind farm in Mongrassano, in the province of Cosenza, Italy. The incident is reported...
At about 13:30 on 28 May 2026, a fire broke out in a photovoltaic (solar) array on the roof of a warehouse in the industrial zone of Termoli, Molise, Italy. Firefighters from the Campobasso command, with a crew from the Termoli detachment, attended the site....
A fire broke out in an electrical cabin located alongside a construction site at Palazzo Lucatelli, a building in the historic centre of Trapani, Sicily, which has long been undergoing renovation. The provincial command of the fire service attended with...
A fire reportedly broke out at a building in via Volta, Milan, Italy, and involved the photovoltaic panels in the array. The source reports that the flames affected the module area, that the building was evacuated, and that about 20 square metres of panels...
Firefighters from Senigallia, supported by an aerial ladder from Ancona, extinguished a fire affecting several photovoltaic panels on Strada Settima in Senigallia, Italy. According to the Vigili del Fuoco regional directorate for the Marche, crews isolated...
A fire broke out at the Salpa-Rolli plant on the Statale 16 in Roseto degli Abruzzi, Italy, affecting the company's photovoltaic system on the roof. Firefighters from the Roseto fire brigade (vigili del fuoco) attended, extinguished the flames and then...
A fault was reported at the electrical cabin that supplies power to the pumps of the water plant on via Mugnano-Melito in Mugnano, Italy. The notice linked the fault to a water shortfall in rione Zi' Peppe, via Colombo and other streets in the area....
A hail storm this week damaged photovoltaic systems in Italy's Marche region, with thunderstorms and damaging winds also reported along the Adriatic coast. Damage was described as highly localised. Of about 200 systems under one manager, one was damaged, with...
A local headline reported an incipient fire on photovoltaic panels in Mareno di Piave, Italy, and a prompt attendance by the fire service. The register has only that headline, so the type of installation, the cause and whether the fire was extinguished are...
A photovoltaic system of around 5,000 panels caught fire at the Viddalba solar plant in Sardinia, Italy, in the early hours of 8 September 2025. Surveillance cameras reportedly captured two people exiting a car and deliberately setting fire to the solar...
Shortly before 7pm on 27 August 2025, a loud bang was heard in the historic centre of Alghero, Sardinia, when an electrical substation on Via Machin exploded, sending a thick column of smoke into the surrounding streets. Firefighters attended the scene to...
Italian fire service reports describe a fire at a photovoltaic system in Basiliano, in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northern Italy. According to the feed summary, the fire started in an external electrical panel of a PV system serving a school complex....
Firefighters were called to a fire involving photovoltaic panels on the roof of a condominium in Casarsa della Delizia, Friuli Venezia Giulia, north-east Italy. Crews extinguished the fire on the panels and then checked the roof structure for damage. No one...
About 2,000 solar panels stored at a site in Tuili, Sardinia, where a solar project was planned, burned overnight on 9 to 10 September 2024. The fire broke out at about 4am and spread quickly, driven by strong north-westerly winds, to the area where the...
A fire broke out on the roof of a SerraMetal factory in Mortegliano, Italy, on the morning of 13 June 2024. According to a preliminary finding by firefighters, the fire started because of a malfunction in the rooftop solar PV system. Employees called for help...
An explosion at Enel Green Power's Bargi hydroelectric plant in the Bologna province of northern Italy killed seven workers. The blast happened during work to increase the plant's efficiency, according to the company. A fire broke out after a turbine exploded...
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