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 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:21:32 GMT 60 https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2307/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2307/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:04:44 GMT Grid infrastructure Ukraine October 2026, Ukraine: Russian attacks damaged substations and overhead and underground power lines in Zaporizhzhia city and in frontline areas of... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2306/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2306/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:44:04 GMT Grid infrastructure France October 2026, France: A fire broke out at a 20,000-volt electricity substation on rue Azarias-Selle in Bolbec on Monday 12 October 2026, shortly... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2305/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2305/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:44:03 GMT Wind (onshore) United States October 2026, United States: On 12 October 2026, Willacy County Sheriff's Office deputies and the Sebastian Fire Department responded to a reported fire... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2304/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2304/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:56 GMT Data centre United Kingdom July 2011, United Kingdom: On the morning of Wednesday 27 July 2011, Telecity's Meridian Gate data centre (data center) in London lost all mains power. Tenant C4L... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2303/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2303/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:55 GMT Data centre United States June 2010, United States: On the evening of Tuesday 15 June 2010, a power failure at Intuit's data centre (data center) in San Diego, California, took down Intuit... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2302/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2302/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:53 GMT Data centre United States February 2010, United States: On 24 February 2010 a power failure occurred at Google's primary data centre (data center) used by App Engine, the company's cloud... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2301/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2301/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:43 GMT Data centre Australia July 2011, Australia: On Thursday 14 July 2011, a power interruption at Global Switch's Sydney data centre (data center) in Australia brought down a number of... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2300/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2300/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:42 GMT Data centre New Zealand October 2010, New Zealand: On 5 October 2010, around midday, one of the four power distribution boards at Orcon's Northcote data centre (data center) in New Zealand... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2299/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2299/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:33 GMT Data centre India 2011, India: In late December 2011 a fire broke out at Airtel's data centre (data center) in Malad, a suburb of Mumbai, India. The fire was reportedly... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2298/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2298/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:32 GMT Data centre South Africa 2012, South Africa: A power surge from the public electricity network disabled the primary data centre (data center) of First National Bank (FNB) in South... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2297/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2297/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:30 GMT Data centre United States 2011, United States: An electrical fire broke out at the New York Stock Exchange's data centre (data center) in Mahwah, New Jersey, the company said in a... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2296/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2296/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:24 GMT Data centre United States January 2014, United States: On 1 January 2014, at about 3pm, the National Park Service data centre (data center) in Denver, Colorado, lost utility power and went... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2295/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2295/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:22 GMT Data centre South Korea April 2012, South Korea: On 28 April 2012 a fault in power equipment at LG CNS's Gasan data centre (data center) in South Korea cut the power supply to the... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2294/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2294/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:17 GMT Data centre Germany 2012, Germany: A power outage at a Vodafone data centre (data center) in Germany damaged server disks that helped host the M-Pesa mobile money service... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2293/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2293/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:10 GMT Data centre Tanzania 2013, Tanzania: In August 2013 a battery-related fire damaged the energy centre of the Kwale data centre (data center) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2292/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2292/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:18:04 GMT Data centre United States October 2012, United States: During Hurricane Sandy, Internap's data centre (data center) at 111 8th Avenue, New York, suffered an outage on the night before the... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2291/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2291/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:54 GMT Data centre Australia 2015, Australia: A Fujitsu data centre (data center) in Perth, Western Australia, lost power on a Sunday in early February 2015 during severe... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2290/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2290/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:50 GMT Data centre United States March 2017, United States: Beginning at 22:19 UTC on 15 March 2017, a main breaker tripped in one of the redundant upstream remote power panels serving... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2289/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2289/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:46 GMT Data centre Japan March 2017, Japan: On Friday 31 March 2017, Microsoft Azure services across Japan were affected for several hours after a failure at the Japan... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2288/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2288/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:44 GMT Data centre Australia November 2017, Australia: On Tuesday 21 November 2017 a faulty battery in the IT room of a health centre in Cairns, Queensland, set off a small fire.... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2287/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2287/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:41 GMT Data centre Germany May 2018, Germany: On 24 May 2018 a thunderstorm reportedly caused voltage fluctuations in the local grid at Falkenstein in Saxony, Germany,... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2286/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2286/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:30 GMT Data centre Saudi Arabia September 2018, Saudi Arabia: On 23 September 2018 a fire broke out in the power generator at the main data centre (data center) of the Saudi Payments Network (Mada),... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2285/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2285/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:27 GMT Data centre Japan November 2019, Japan: On Monday 25 November 2019, a power failure occurred at 13:58 at a data centre (data center) operated by NTT Communications in Gifu... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2284/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2284/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:26 GMT Data centre United States August 2019, United States: On Saturday 31 August 2019, at about 04:33 PDT, one of the ten data centre (data center)s in one of the six Availability Zones of the AWS... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2283/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2283/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:25 GMT Data centre United States August 2021, United States: On 31 August 2021, during Hurricane Ida, a fire broke out in the data centre (data center) on the third floor of New Orleans City Hall in... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2282/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2282/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:21 GMT Data centre South Korea December 2020, South Korea: A fire broke out at about 11:12 pm on 15 December 2020 in the storage battery room on basement level 3 of KT's Gangnam... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2281/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2281/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:19 GMT Data centre France February 2020, France: At about 04:00 on 11 February 2020 a fire broke out in a 20 square metre room used to store and charge batteries at a... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2280/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2280/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:09 GMT Data centre United States February 2021, United States: During the February 2021 winter storm power emergency in Texas, a data centre (data center) in Dallas used by Availity, a Florida-based... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2279/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2279/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:06 GMT Grid infrastructure Argentina May 2021, Argentina: Before dawn on a Saturday in May 2021, a fire at an electricity substation cut the utility power supply to the La Punta data... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2278/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2278/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:02 GMT Data centre Malaysia January 2022, Malaysia: On the evening of 3 January 2022, a fire affected the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) equipment at the Telekom Malaysia... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2277/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2277/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:16:57 GMT Data centre United States December 2021, United States: On 22 December 2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported a loss of power within a single data centre (data center) in one Availability Zone,... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2276/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2276/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:16:47 GMT Data centre France March 2022, France: At about 14:45 on 8 March 2022, a fuel oil leak occurred in the generator room of a data processing site in Pantin,... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2275/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2275/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:16:39 GMT Data centre United States May 2022, United States: On 10 May 2022 an explosion occurred at the substation serving a bitcoin mining facility in Niagara Falls, New York, United... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2274/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2274/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:16:38 GMT Data centre Japan March 2022, Japan: On 26 March 2022 a fault occurred in part of the power supply system at a data centre (data center) operated by Kyndryl Japan. The fault... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2273/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2273/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:16:32 GMT Data centre South Africa June 2022, South Africa: During Stage 4 load shedding by Eskom, South Africa's grid operator, a cooling failure was reported at MTN's Gallo Manor... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2272/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2272/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:16:29 GMT Data centre United Kingdom May 2022, United Kingdom: Equinix's MA1 data centre (data center) in Manchester Science Park, Manchester, United Kingdom, lost power on the morning of 24 May 2022.... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2271/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2271/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:16:19 GMT Data centre United States April 2023, United States: On the late evening of Sunday 30 April 2023, fallen trees affected the grid connection supplying the on-site data centre (data center) at... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2270/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2270/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:16:11 GMT Data centre United States February 2023, United States: On 14 February 2023 smoke was reported at a data centre (data center) in Boston, United States, used by Oracle NetSuite. According to a... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2269/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2269/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:16:05 GMT Data centre India October 2023, India: At 11:55 pm on 9 October 2023 a fire broke out in C Block of Nehru Hospital at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2268/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2268/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:16:04 GMT Data centre Australia March 2023, Australia: On 13 March 2023 Vocus reported a major incident at its VDC-MEL03 data centre (data center) at 530 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria.... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2267/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2267/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:16:03 GMT Data centre United States October 2023, United States: An electrical failure in one of the redundant uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units at the Evocative EWR1 data centre (data center),... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2266/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2266/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:16:00 GMT Data centre Netherlands October 2023, Netherlands: On 20 October 2023 Microsoft detected instability on the utility grid, in the form of voltage sags and swells, at one of its... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2265/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2265/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:15:45 GMT Data centre United States November 2023, United States: On 2 November 2023 Portland General Electric (PGE) had an unplanned maintenance event that shut down one of the utility... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2264/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2264/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:15:44 GMT Data centre Japan 2024, Japan: In February 2024 a fire broke out in the UPS room of a data centre (data center) in the area served by the Inzai District Fire Department... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2263/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2263/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:15:34 GMT Data centre South Africa February 2024, South Africa: At about 03:05 on 11 February 2024, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) detected a power feed disruption at its colocation... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2262/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2262/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:15:33 GMT Data centre France March 2024, France: On the morning of Thursday 21 March 2024 a small fire broke out in the room that houses the batteries for the emergency... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2261/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2261/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:15:32 GMT Data centre Germany October 2024, Germany: On 23 October 2024 at 18:22 US/Pacific time, an electrical arc flash occurred in one of the power distribution units serving... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2260/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2260/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:15:30 GMT Data centre Sweden August 2024, Sweden: On 12 August 2024, GleSYS AB was carrying out planned maintenance at its VBDC data centre (data center) in Stockholm, Sweden. The work... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2259/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2259/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:15:13 GMT Data centre South Korea September 2026, South Korea: A fire broke out on Tuesday 29 September 2026 at a data centre (data center) in the Gasan-dong area of Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, South Korea.... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2258/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2258/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:15:05 GMT Data centre Singapore May 2025, Singapore: On 31 May 2025 two data halls at the Equinix SG1 data centre (data center) at 20 Ayer Rajah Crescent, Singapore, lost power during... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read.