Incidents recorded in South Korea across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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At about 13:24 on 21 October 2026, a fire broke out on the rooftop of a three-storey kindergarten building in Seongseong-dong, Seobuk-gu, Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province. The fire started in the solar charging panels installed on the roof. The...
A fire broke out at about 18:09 local time on 13 October 2026 at a power transformer within the Seodaejeon substation in Byeondong, Seo-gu, Daejeon. The substation is operated by Korea Electric Power Corporation. Part of the transformer was burned. Daejeon...
On 13 October 2026, a fire broke out at a solar power generation facility in Daesan-eup, Seosan, South Chungcheong, at about 10:50 local time. Fire services reported that the blaze was fully extinguished at about 11:32, roughly 42 minutes after the emergency...
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On 9 October 2026, at about 15:30, a fire broke out at a solar power generation facility in Jido-eup, Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea, according to a Korean-language report published on 10 October 2026. Fire services attended and were extinguishing the...
A fire broke out on Tuesday 29 September 2026 at a data centre in the Gasan-dong area of Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Firefighters were called at 11:55 am. Geumcheon Fire Department sent 80 officers and 14 fire engines, and the fire was extinguished by...
According to a single report, a fire broke out at a transformer in Okam-dong, Mokpo, South Jeolla Province, around 4:00 PM on 25 September 2026. Flames among discarded boxes near the transformer were said to have created a risk of further incidents, including...
A fire broke out at around 6:25am on 21 September 2026 in an outdoor container housing an energy storage system (ESS) at the KEPCO Power ICT Daejeon Center in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea. The ESS is located on the premises of KEPCO's Electric Power...
A fire broke out inside a wind turbine at the Yeongdeok wind power complex in Changpo-ri, Yeongdeok-eup, Yeongdeok-gun, Gyeongbuk province, South Korea. Chosun Ilbo reports that the fire started on 23 March 2026, although a photo caption in the same article...
A fire broke out at a wind farm in Yeongdeok County, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, killing three workers. One worker was found dead at the turbine, with two others initially unaccounted for before later being confirmed dead. A major firefighting...
A fire broke out in the energy storage system (ESS) at a solar power facility in Taebaek, Gangwon Province, South Korea, on 19 February 2026, according to a report by Nate News citing Gangwon Provincial Fire Headquarters. Firefighters took about 18 hours to...
On 10 February 2026 a wind turbine caught fire on a hillside near Eden Valley in Eogok-dong, Yangsan, Gyeongnam Province, South Korea. The fire partly burned the turbine generator and scrub growth beneath it. No one was injured. Six people, including staff...
On 2 February 2026, an 80 metre wind turbine at the Byeolparang Park wind farm (Changpo Wind Power Complex) in Yeongdeok-eup, Yeongdeok County, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea collapsed, with the tower and blades falling across an internal road. Wind...
A construction worker died after a crane fell from a road on a cliff at the site of a renewable energy project in South Korea, reported as an onshore wind farm development. The exact circumstances, including the cause of the crane's fall, have not been...
A fire broke out at a battery energy storage system co-located with a solar power facility in Angang-eup, Gyeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, destroying eight cabinet-type lithium-ion battery units, manufactured by LG Energy Solution, and the...
A fire broke out at a data centre operated by Lotte in Daejeon, South Korea, at about 4.59am on a Thursday. Officials believe it started in the uninterruptible power supply on the second floor, and that a battery in the UPS may have been involved, though an...
A fire broke out on the evening of 26 September 2025 in a server room on the fifth floor of the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) data centre in Daejeon, South Korea. Officials suspect the fire began when a lithium-ion battery exploded during...
In July 2025, near the end of a demonstration project, a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage system operated by Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) leaked electrolyte at a demonstration site in Naju city. The leak began on 9 July 2025 and...
In June 2025 a fire of undetermined origin broke out in the electrical room of an energy storage system at the Dongkuk Steel Pohang ESS centre in Nam-gu, Daesong-myeon, Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. The building was a two storey steel framed...
In June 2025, a fire broke out during the afternoon in the battery energy storage room of a solar photovoltaic generation site at Gi-eun-ri, Daesan-eup, Seosan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. The single storey storage building, constructed with sandwich...
At about 3:26 a.m. on 7 April 2025, a power outage hit the Bundang internet data centre (IDC) operated by Hostway, disrupting services on the third and fourth floors. According to a failure report obtained by Digital Daily, overcurrent in some generator units...
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