Incidents recorded in Taiwan across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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On 31 October 2026, a fire broke out at the Hsinta Power Plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, operated by Taiwan Power Company. The fire was on the roof of the boiler house for the new gas unit 3, where waterproofing work was under way. The waterproofing membrane...
On 23 October 2026, a distribution box (transformer box) exploded on Suao New City South Road in Suao, Yilan County, Taiwan, as a typhoon approached the area. According to the report, the incident happened at about 15:50 during strong winds, when the power...
An offshore wind turbine at the Greater Changhua Northwest offshore wind farm (Greater Changhua 2b and 4) suffered blade damage on 2 October. No personnel were working on the turbine at the time and no vessels were in the safety zone. No injuries or...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
In 2026, a turbine at Ørsted's Greater Changhua 4 offshore wind farm off Taiwan automatically tripped after its monitoring system detected an abnormal condition. The site team subsequently observed a fire on the turbine, which was extinguished a short time...
A 70 metre high wind turbine operated by state utility Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) caught fire in Mailiao Township, Yunlin County, on a Sunday. The turbine had begun commercial operation in 2010 and had been in service for nearly 16 years at the time of the...
A fire broke out at the Zhuyuan Extra High Voltage Substation in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, on a Monday in March 2026 during equipment testing. Three workers at the site were injured and taken to hospital. Two of them later died from their injuries, raising the...
A fire broke out in a section of the 192 MW Lunwei East District floating solar park in Changbin Industrial Park, Changhua County, Taiwan. The project contractor, United Renewable Energy Engineering Co (URE), said the fire was caused by a short circuit in a...
On the evening of 9 September 2025, a natural gas leak and fire occurred at the Xingda power plant in Kaohsiung during the first hot fuel trial run of new gas-fired unit 2, which was still under construction. Taipower reported that a flange gasket on the...
On 20 August several workers at the Hai Long Changhua onshore substation were affected by a carbon dioxide leak from the fire suppression system. Seventeen people were taken to hospital. Ten were discharged with minor injuries. Seven remained in hospital,...
A battery cabinet installed outside the Lanyu Power Plant on Lanyu (Orchid Island), Taitung County, Taiwan, operated by Taipower, caught fire during testing of a newly added energy storage system. The fire is suspected to have been caused by a short circuit...
On the evening of 4 July 2023, fire was reported at an outdoor container energy storage station on Industrial Road in Longjing District, Taichung City, Taiwan. Open flame and smoke came from a container holding lithium iron phosphate batteries. Firefighters...
In 2022 a fire broke out in a small battery storage installation co-located with solar generation at the ITRI Green Energy and Environment Research Laboratories solar storage demonstration site in Longjing District, Taichung City, Taiwan, operated by the...
A fire at Taiwan Power Co's Wanlong substation in Taipei's Wenshan District cut power on 12 December 2021. The city government said Taipower reported a mechanical malfunction that led to the fire, and that the substation's 161 kV and 69 kV supply systems were...
The available report says a fire at a primary power substation in Taipei affected several Greater Taipei districts on the morning of 12 December 2021. State-run Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) said supply had returned to normal by Sunday afternoon. The substation...
On 15 June 2020 at approximately 16:42 local time, the heavy lift vessel Aegir, operated by Heerema Marine Contractors, experienced a dropfall incident while installing jacket foundations at the 109.2 MW Changhua offshore wind project, located around 8km off...
Upstream Online reported on 19 June 2020 that work installing 21 jacket foundations for an offshore wind farm for Taiwan Power Company had been suspended after an accident on the Heerema vessel Aegir off Taiwan. The report does not say what failed, whether...
On 25 February 2013 a fire broke out in the Liyuan Building, the headquarters of Chief Telecom in Taipei, which houses data centres. The Taipei City Fire Department judged that the fire started in the electrical and mechanical room on the second basement...
On 5 February 2010, at about 6.20pm, the machine room of CTBC Bank (Chinatrust Commercial Bank) in Taiwan suffered a major outage. Credit card, online banking, ATM, customer service and Taiwan Lottery computer ticket systems were interrupted. The machine room...
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