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 08:37:06 GMT 60 https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2331/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2331/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:27:19 GMT Data centre United States January 2010, United States: Utility power was lost at NaviSite's data centre (data center) in San Jose, California, during severe storms that had caused a power... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2330/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2330/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:27:18 GMT Data centre United Kingdom January 2010, United Kingdom: On 18 January 2010 a module on an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) failed at the LON03 data centre (data center) operated by Rackspace... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2329/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2329/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:27:09 GMT Data centre Italy April 2011, Italy: At about 04:30 on 29 April 2011 a short circuit inside the battery cabinets serving the UPS systems at Aruba's server farm... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2328/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2328/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:27:01 GMT Data centre United States 2011, United States: A short circuit in an equipment vault on the Washington State government campus in Olympia caused a power surge that shut... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2327/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2327/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:27:00 GMT Data centre United States April 2010, United States: Early on 30 April 2010 a fire broke out in an electrical room at a Terremark data centre (data center) on the NAP of the Capital Region... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2326/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2326/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:26:58 GMT Data centre Canada November 2010, Canada: On the evening of 3 November 2010, a fire near an iWeb data centre (data center) in Montreal disrupted the utility power supply. The... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2325/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2325/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:26:57 GMT Grid infrastructure Ireland August 2011, Ireland: At 18:16 local time on Sunday 7 August 2011, a 110kV transformer operated by ESB Networks failed at Citywest, Dublin,... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2324/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2324/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:26:54 GMT Data centre United States August 2011, United States: On 10 August 2011 an automatic transfer switch (ATS) failed at one of the six service entrances, where utility power enters... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2323/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2323/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:26:41 GMT Data centre United States June 2012, United States: On 14 June 2012 an Amazon Web Services data centre (data center) in the US-East-1 availability zone in Ashburn, Virginia, lost utility... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2322/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2322/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:26:40 GMT Data centre United Kingdom May 2012, United Kingdom: On the night of 29 May 2012, Pulsant suffered a power disruption at its Maidenhead data centre (data center) that cut customer servers and... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2321/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2321/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:26:35 GMT Data centre United Kingdom July 2012, United Kingdom: A fault in the electrical system took the Level 3 Braham Street data centre (data center) in London offline on 10 July 2012. The outage... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2320/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2320/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:26:30 GMT Data centre Canada July 2012, Canada: A transformer exploded at Shaw Communications' downtown headquarters, Shaw Court, in Calgary, Alberta, on the afternoon of... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2319/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2319/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:26:21 GMT Data centre Indonesia August 2012, Indonesia: At about 19.00 local time on Sunday 12 August 2012, one of the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units on the second floor... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2318/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2318/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:26:19 GMT Data centre Italy July 2015, Italy: On Monday 6 July 2015 a fire closed Colt's Milan Lancetti Data Centre (data center) in Milan, Italy, taking the company's cloud services... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2317/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2317/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:26:14 GMT Data centre Taiwan February 2013, Taiwan: On 25 February 2013 a fire broke out in the Liyuan Building, the headquarters of Chief Telecom in Taipei, which houses data... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2316/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2316/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:26:06 GMT Data centre Singapore November 2014, Singapore: On 5 November 2014 the trading systems of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) went down. SGX said the cause was a malfunction in... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2315/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2315/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:26:05 GMT Data centre United States May 2014, United States: Internap experienced three outages in six days at two of its Manhattan data centre (data center)s in May 2014, all caused by component... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2314/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2314/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:25:53 GMT Data centre United Kingdom November 2015, United Kingdom: On the afternoon of 17 November 2015, the Sovereign House data centre (data center) in London Docklands, operated by TelecityGroup, lost... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2313/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2313/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:25:51 GMT Data centre United States April 2018, United States: On Wednesday 4 April 2018, shortly after 1pm, a fire started in the electrical room of Georgetown University's Laurel Data... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2312/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2312/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:25:44 GMT Data centre United States September 2018, United States: On 4 September 2018, storms over Southern Texas caused voltage sags and swells at several Microsoft Azure data centre (data center)s in... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2311/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2311/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:25:40 GMT Data centre United Kingdom July 2016, United Kingdom: On the morning of Wednesday 20 July 2016, a brief power outage occurred at the former Telecity LD8 data centre (data center) at 8/9... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2310/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2310/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:25:38 GMT Data centre Australia June 2016, Australia: On 4 June 2016 at 10:25 PM PDT (5 June Sydney time), a utility provider suffered a loss of power at a regional substation... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2309/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2309/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:04:19 GMT Grid infrastructure India 2026, India: According to a local Hindi-language report by Dainik Bhaskar, a fire broke out in a safety box beside a transformer in Nagla... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2308/ https://energyincidentregister.com/incident/eir-2308/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:43:37 GMT Grid infrastructure Malaysia October 2026, Malaysia: An unidentified man was found dead early in the morning on the road shoulder beside a Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB)... Sources, causes and lessons, free to read. 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.