Lessons learned from energy incidents

3,593 lessons from 1,646 battery storage, solar, wind, grid and data centre incidents, sorted into 13 themes. Each lesson links to the incident it came from, with what happened and the sources. Free to read and to share.

By theme

Theft, arson and site security88 Weather and external hazards191 Structural integrity and turbines318 Worker safety and safe systems of work147 Detection and monitoring315 Fire suppression and firefighting432 Spacing, layout and fire spread217 Electrical protection and isolation469 Outages, backup supply and restoration546 Emergency response and public communication443 Maintenance, inspection and ageing assets240 Investigation and fleet-wide checks137 Design, standards and commissioning50

By technology

Lessons in this library from each technology. Every theme page groups its lessons the same way.

Battery storage285 Solar PV622 Wind (onshore)566 Wind (offshore)69 Grid infrastructure1757 Data centre178 Hybrid co-located101 Other15

How the library is made

Every published entry ends with numbered lessons, written from its sources for the people who run, insure and plan these assets. The library splits them into single lessons and files each under the first theme whose words it uses. Lessons about the reporting itself, such as "a first report is not a finding", stay on their entry and are left out here. A lesson is a practical point drawn from one incident, not a finding of fault.

To find the lessons that apply to one decision, describe it in the lessons finder.