Cohuna solar farm in Victoria switched off over fire risk
EIR-0771Provisional entry. Confirmed: a Victorian solar farm was reported on 21 December 2023 to have stopped operating because of a fire risk. Not yet known: the site's identity beyond the URL reference to Cohuna, the operator, the nature of the risk, and whether any fire or damage occurred. Next update: 17 September 2026.
An Australian news report dated 21 December 2023 stated that the Cohuna solar farm in Cohuna, Victoria, Australia, ceased operating because of a fire risk. The nature of the fire risk, whether any equipment was damaged, who operates the site, its capacity and the expected duration of the shutdown are not known from the available material. No fire, injuries or evacuation is reported in what is available, but this cannot be confirmed either way.
Not reported in the available source material.
- Operators benefit from clear protocols for taking generation offline when a credible fire risk is identified, before an ignition occurs.
- Publishing the technical cause of an identified fire risk helps other operators check for the same vulnerability on their own fleets.
- Routine inspection regimes should be designed to detect early warning signs such as hot joints, damaged cabling and inverter faults at solar installations.
Published 2026-09-15. Written from public reporting. Descriptive, not investigative. See the data accuracy disclaimer.