Incidents recorded in Sweden across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
12 published entries. Newest first. Search and filter these in the register.
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According to a feature article published by EcoPortal.net on 22 October 2026, a wind turbine blade broke off at a 175 MW wind farm in Ragunda municipality, Jämtland county, central Sweden, on Friday 13 March 2026. The article describes 33 turbines rated at...
A fire was reported in a wind turbine in Bjälbo outside Mjölby. The alarm was received at 11.20. Rescue services said callers could see fire at the top of the turbine and that it was about 50 metres up in the machine room. Crews kept a safety distance in case...
On 12 August 2024, GleSYS AB was carrying out planned maintenance at its VBDC data centre in Stockholm, Sweden. The work involved installing one of two new uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units with new switchgear, and retiring the previous UPS system....
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A worker died after becoming trapped between an elevator and the shaft inside a GE Vernova wind turbine at the Markbygden wind complex in Sweden. The incident occurred the previous year relative to the report. Following an investigation, authorities decided...
A fire broke out in a battery storage container holding around nine tonnes of lithium batteries in the Sisjon industrial area of Vastra Frolunda, Gothenburg. The container, which was on wheels, was moved from indoors to outdoors after smoke was detected....
A July 2022 report says a turbine collapsed at the Nordex-equipped Nysäter wind project in Sweden, and that the collapse and an oil spill shut the site. The project had had a ribbon-cutting by RWE only weeks earlier, and was described as one of Europe's...
In a July 2022 report, a blade was said to have become partially detached from a GE Cypress turbine at the Björkvattnet wind farm in central Sweden. The report described the farm as Google-contracted and said this was the second blade failure at the project...
On 3 September 2021, Recharge reported a blade failure that damaged a 5.3MW GE Vernova onshore turbine at Björkvattnet in northern Sweden. The manufacturer was analysing the root cause. Injuries, the extent of damage beyond the blade, and whether the turbine...
A Vestas V150 4.2MW wind turbine collapsed in November 2020 at the Aldermyrberget wind farm in Sweden, owned by Wpd, while the site was ramping up towards full commissioning. Nobody was hurt in the incident. A subsequent investigation identified a bonding...
Vestas took around 150 V150-4.0/4.2/4.3 MW (Mk3E) turbines out of operation globally after finding a bonding failure on certain blade root inserts, which it attributed to contamination of inserts during a manufacturing process step at one supplier. The fault...
The boom of a 750 tonne Liebherr LG1750 mobile crane, reportedly owned by Polish company Viatron, collapsed while lifting the nacelle of a Vestas wind turbine at the Solberg wind farm near Åsele, in Västerbotten, Sweden. The nacelle had only been raised a...
A Vestas wind turbine in Sweden was reported to have collapsed in 2015 after failure of the tower bolts. The only available source is a headline, so the site, the capacity, any injuries and the wider consequences are not reported.
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