Incidents recorded in Japan across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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At about 9:50 am on 28 October 2026, roughly 10,000 homes were left without power in western Yokkaichi, parts of Komono and parts of Suzuka in Mie Prefecture. According to Chubu Electric Power Grid, based in Nagoya, the outage was caused by a work error...
On the 24th (the source gives the day only; October 2026 is inferred from the report date), a fire broke out near the base of the blades on Unit 2 of the Tohaku Wind Power Plant in Kotoura, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The fire started close to the area where...
On 22 September 2026, at about 5:20 pm, a fire was reported at a substation in Nagano City, Japan. The published lead places the incident in Matsushiro-machi Saijo, but the article is behind a paywall and the sentence is cut off, so the exact site name is not...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
At about 8.30 am on 24 September 2026 a passer-by reported a fire at solar power generation panels beside Inba-numa in Narita City, Chiba Prefecture. The site was flooded after Typhoon No. 25, so fire and police services could not approach and no active...
Smoke was reported at the Bicchu Hirose substation in Takahashi City at about 05:20 on 28 May 2026. A newspaper headline reported a fire at the substation. Services on the Hakubi Line were suspended for about half a day. A tree had fallen onto overhead lines...
On 12 April a blade on a wind turbine in Oga City, Akita Prefecture, broke during operation. The operator reported to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry that a lightning strike on 20 March had damaged the blade. Continued running weakened the...
A fire at a wind power generator in Kotoura town, Tottori Prefecture, Japan, was reported by TV Asahi News on 24 October 2026 as extinguished. The full article could not be retrieved, so this entry rests on the headline and feed summary alone. The report does...
An 81-year-old man died after a 40-metre wind turbine blade broke off and fell to the ground at Araya Seaside Park in Akita prefecture, Japan. Police received an emergency call on the Friday morning reporting that a blade had broken off a turbine at the park....
A fire broke out at a lithium-ion battery energy storage system co-located with the Takayanagi Solar Power Plant, Unit 6, operated by Hayashi Energy System in Isa City, Kagoshima, Japan. Neighbours reported white smoke coming from the site. Firefighters could...
In late March 2024 a fire and explosion occurred in a single-storey steel-framed building housing lithium-ion battery storage equipment at a large-scale solar power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture. Nearby residents alerted the fire service. Firefighters could...
In February 2024 a fire broke out in the UPS room of a data centre in the area served by the Inzai District Fire Department in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The UPS room supplies power to the server rooms from stored battery power until backup generators can be...
On 26 March 2022 a fault occurred in part of the power supply system at a data centre operated by Kyndryl Japan. The fault began at 11:08 am, and power was restored at 11:44 am the same day, so the power disruption lasted about 36 minutes. The systems of some...
On Sunday 23 February 2020, at about 09:25, a power outage at a data centre operated by IBM Japan brought down the core banking system of Sumishin SBI Net Bank. Power was restored at about 09:29, but equipment needed to restart the core banking system had...
On 23 November 2019, at about 06:40, systems at the Qic Data Center in Fukuoka, Japan, went down. The data centre is run by QTnet, a Kyushu Electric Power Group company. The site was undergoing renewal of its power equipment. An overcurrent relay in the...
On Monday 25 November 2019, a power failure occurred at 13:58 at a data centre operated by NTT Communications in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The failure happened during switchover work on the data centre's power equipment. An excessive current was generated, and...
On 9 September 2019, Typhoon Faxai struck the coastal city of Chiba and damaged Japan's largest floating PV plant, inaugurated by Kyocera in March 2018 at the Yamakura Dam in Ichihara City. Reporting said the wind tore several modules from the array and...
A 13-year-old Gamesa G80 2MW wind turbine at the JFE Engineering wind project near Chinzei, in Saga prefecture on the Japanese island of Kyushu, caught fire at around 3pm on 21 August 2017. The fire burned for roughly 16 hours before it was extinguished....
On Friday 31 March 2017, Microsoft Azure services across Japan were affected for several hours after a failure at the Japan East data centre in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo. The facility is managed by a third party. Microsoft's status page said that one...
On 16 January 2016, at about 14:15, power was lost to roughly 12% of a GMO Internet data centre in Japan. Several brief power interruptions occurred first, and power returned automatically after each one. GMO attributed the outage to a partial failure of...
On 7 June 2012 systems hosted at Fujitsu's Tatebayashi System Center in Japan stopped for long periods. All Tokyo Star Bank ATMs, some Resona Bank ATMs, all Sony Bank systems, some Nifty Cloud servers and Square Enix online games were affected. According to a...
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