https://energyincidentregister.com/register.html Battery storage, solar, wind, grid and data centre incidents, newest first, each with its sources. Free to read. en-gb Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:26:47 GMT 60 https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2388/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2388/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:23:36 GMT Grid infrastructure Ghana 2026, Ghana: A JoyNews video report, carried by Modern Ghana on 14 October 2026, is headlined 'Power Outage: GRIDCo works to restore... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2387/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2387/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:09:03 GMT Grid infrastructure South Africa September 2026, South Africa: A fire at the Waltloo substation in Tshwane, South Africa, on 29 September left residents in Murrayfield, parts of... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2386/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2386/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:58:06 GMT Grid infrastructure United States June 2017, United States: A Mylar balloon became tangled in a power line in Huntington Beach, California, causing a transformer at 6371 Down Drive to... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2385/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2385/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:58:04 GMT Grid infrastructure United States October 2017, United States: On Monday 30 October 2017, at around 2 p.m. local time, a large transformer at a Nashville Electric Service (NES) substation... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2384/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2384/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:57:50 GMT Grid infrastructure South Africa September 2017, South Africa: Shortly before 8am on Monday 11 September 2017, residents of Seatides, a settlement south of Ballito on the M4 in... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2383/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2383/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:57:40 GMT Solar PV United Kingdom March 2018, United Kingdom: A fire broke out in the roof space of a house in Trewoon, near St Austell in Cornwall, on Sunday afternoon, 25 March 2018.... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2382/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2382/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:57:34 GMT Grid infrastructure United Kingdom September 2017, United Kingdom: At about 4.20am on a Thursday in late September 2017, firefighters were called to Nant power station, near Kilchrenan in... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2381/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2381/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:57:31 GMT Grid infrastructure Puerto Rico February 2018, Puerto Rico: On Sunday 11 February 2018, an explosion and fire at an electric substation in Puerto Rico caused a widespread blackout. The... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2380/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2380/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:57:23 GMT Grid infrastructure United States November 2018, United States: On the morning of Saturday 17 November 2018, residents in parts of Signal Hill, Cal Heights and Bixby Knolls, California,... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2379/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2379/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:57:17 GMT Solar PV United States 2019, United States: Volusia County Fire responded to a grass fire reported at a Florida Power and Light solar farm on S.R. 44 in Volusia County,... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2378/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2378/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:56:56 GMT Grid infrastructure United States November 2019, United States: A fire was reported at the Kettering substation on East Dorothy Lane, just west of Wilmington Pike, at around 7:40 a.m. on... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2377/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2377/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:56:38 GMT Grid infrastructure United States October 2020, United States: Norfolk dispatchers received a call at about 11 a.m. on Friday 16 October 2020 about a transformer fire in East Ocean View,... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2376/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2376/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:56:34 GMT Grid infrastructure South Africa January 2020, South Africa: On Monday 13 January 2020 an explosion at a municipal substation in Newton Park, Port Elizabeth, knocked out about half of... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2375/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2375/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:43:15 GMT Battery storage Germany 2026, Germany: According to a regional newspaper report published on 14 October 2026, a battery storage unit in the cellar of a... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2374/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2374/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:43:25 GMT Grid infrastructure United States October 2026, United States: At 11:52 pm on Monday 12 October 2026, an outage affected customers of Rochester Public Utilities (RPU) in Rochester. RPU... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2373/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2373/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:23:28 GMT Grid infrastructure Ukraine October 2026, Ukraine: As of 14 October 2026, power outages were reported in the temporarily occupied cities of Donetsk and Makiivka, Ukraine.... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2372/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2372/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:04:14 GMT Grid infrastructure Ghana 2026, Ghana: A fire reportedly damaged parts of the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) substation at Mallam, Accra, Ghana, according to... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2371/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2371/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:43:32 GMT Wind (onshore) South Korea February 2026, South Korea: On 10 February 2026 a wind turbine caught fire on a hillside near Eden Valley in Eogok-dong, Yangsan, Gyeongnam Province,... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2370/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2370/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:43:43 GMT Grid infrastructure South Korea October 2026, South Korea: A fire broke out at about 18:09 local time on 13 October 2026 at a power transformer within the Seodaejeon substation in... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2369/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2369/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:04:25 GMT Wind (onshore) Mexico October 2026, Mexico: A wind turbine at the La Rumorosa wind farm in Tecate municipality, Baja California, Mexico, was reported on fire on Tuesday... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2368/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2368/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:04:18 GMT Grid infrastructure Brazil October 2026, Brazil: On the morning of Tuesday 13 October 2026, a lightning strike hit equipment at a Copel substation supplying the municipality... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2367/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2367/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:43:26 GMT Solar PV Italy 2026, Italy: A fire broke out at the Salpa-Rolli plant on the Statale 16 in Roseto degli Abruzzi, Italy, affecting the company's... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2366/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2366/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:38:56 GMT Data centre Russia October 2026, Russia: Drones attacked a Yandex data centre (data center) in the Vladimir region of Russia on 11 October 2026, according to Yandex, which said... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2365/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2365/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:38:41 GMT Grid infrastructure Egypt 2026, Egypt: A fire broke out at an electricity transformer in front of a fuel station in Fayoum, Egypt, according to a report by Awan... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2364/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2364/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:23:58 GMT Solar PV South Korea October 2026, South Korea: On 13 October 2026, a fire broke out at a solar power generation facility in Daesan-eup, Seosan, South Chungcheong, at about... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2363/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2363/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:04:07 GMT Grid infrastructure United Kingdom October 2026, United Kingdom: On 13 October 2026, UK Power Networks engineers were called to a fire at a substation in the Beetons Way area of Bury St... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2362/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2362/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:54 GMT Data centre Canada June 2014, Canada: On 9 June 2014 an osprey building a nest on an NB Power transmission line shorted the line, and the Marysville Data Centre (data center)... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2361/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2361/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:52 GMT Data centre Australia December 2010, Australia: On 10 December 2010 a high-voltage mains power failure, reported by utility CitiPower at about 4am, cut power to the Vocus... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2360/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2360/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:51 GMT Data centre Taiwan February 2010, Taiwan: On 5 February 2010, at about 6.20pm, the machine room of CTBC Bank (Chinatrust Commercial Bank) in Taiwan suffered a major... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2359/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2359/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:42 GMT Data centre France April 2012, France: On Wednesday 11 April 2012, a circuit breaker on the first-floor west side of the Telehouse 2 (TH2) data centre (data center) on boulevard... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2358/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2358/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:31 GMT Data centre Japan June 2012, Japan: On 7 June 2012 systems hosted at Fujitsu's Tatebayashi System Center in Japan stopped for long periods. All Tokyo Star Bank... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2357/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2357/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:27 GMT Data centre Switzerland January 2014, Switzerland: A local power cut in Zurich-West on 13 March 2013 disrupted services at the main data centre (data center) of I-Web, a Swiss provider of... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2356/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2356/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:26 GMT Data centre France July 2013, France: On Thursday 4 July 2013, at about 10:30, grid power supply to the DC2 data centre (data center) of Online.net in Vitry-sur-Seine, France,... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2355/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2355/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:24 GMT Data centre January 2016, North America: On Thursday 14 January 2016, at 11.37 a.m. Eastern Time, power was lost at a Verizon data centre (data center) that hosted JetBlue Airways... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2354/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2354/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:16 GMT Data centre Germany August 2015, Germany: On Thursday 20 August 2015, at about 10:30, the power supply to the Neuenheimer Feld campus of Heidelberg University was... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2353/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2353/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:04 GMT Data centre Japan January 2016, Japan: On 16 January 2016, at about 14:15, power was lost to roughly 12% of a GMO Internet data centre (data center) in Japan. Several brief... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2352/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2352/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:55:00 GMT Data centre United States May 2016, United States: On 10 May 2016, a circuit breaker controlling power into Salesforce's data centre (data center) in Washington, D.C. failed. Multiple... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2351/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2351/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:58 GMT Data centre Canada October 2017, Canada: On 3 October 2017, at about 6:45 p.m., a fire alarm test at a data centre (data center) used only for Correctional Service Canada systems... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2350/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2350/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:52 GMT Data centre Netherlands January 2017, Netherlands: On 17 January 2017 a major grid outage affected Amsterdam from about 04:15. The Datacenter Group (TDCG) data centre (data center) in... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2349/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2349/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:50 GMT Data centre France November 2017, France: On 9 November 2017 at about 07:04, a fault on the external electricity network cut both 20kV supply cables to the OVH... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2348/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2348/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:48 GMT Data centre China April 2017, China: At 19:57 on 4 April 2017 a fire broke out in the UPS room of the network data centre (data center) at Beijing University of Posts and... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2347/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2347/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:36 GMT Data centre Australia February 2018, Australia: On 13 February 2018, shortly before 7am AEST, power was lost at Vocus's Alexandria data centre (data center) in Sydney, described in the... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2346/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2346/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:32 GMT Data centre Czech Republic May 2018, Czech Republic: On Saturday 12 May 2018, shortly before 10:00, a fire was reported in the server room of Czech Post (Česká pošta) in the... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2345/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2345/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:24 GMT Data centre United States July 2018, United States: At about 19:35 UTC on 18 July 2018 utility power to the colocation data centre (data center) in Newark, New Jersey, housing Linode's... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2344/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2344/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:23 GMT Data centre Brazil March 2019, Brazil: On Sunday 10 March 2019 a fire broke out in a room housing uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units at the six-storey... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2343/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2343/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:21 GMT Data centre Australia August 2018, Australia: On 30 August 2018, shortly before 11am, routine fire control systems testing was carried out incorrectly by an external... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2342/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2342/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:09 GMT Data centre Brazil September 2019, Brazil: A fire broke out at about 9 a.m. on Saturday 7 September 2019 at the downtown Caxias do Sul facility of Bitcom, an internet,... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2341/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2341/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:05 GMT Data centre Japan February 2020, Japan: On Sunday 23 February 2020, at about 09:25, a power outage at a data centre (data center) operated by IBM Japan brought down the core... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2340/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2340/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:02 GMT Data centre South Korea September 2021, South Korea: In the early morning of 8 September 2021, a power outage hit the cloud data centre (data center) operated by SmileServ, a South Korean... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2339/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2339/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:54:00 GMT Data centre Japan November 2019, Japan: On 23 November 2019, at about 06:40, systems at the Qic Data Center in Fukuoka, Japan, went down. The data centre (data center) is run by... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read.