Questions answered with the register's own numbers
Each answer is counted from the published entries when the site is built, so it is the register's figure on 2026-09-26, not an estimate.
Read every count as a count of what is recorded. The register is new and has been filling in an archive, so a rise across years is a measure of the register, not of the world, and a country with open reporting appears more often than one without. The methodology says how entries are found and checked.
How many battery storage fires have there been?
88 of the 102 battery storage entries on the register are fires or thermal events. Battery storage is 15% of everything recorded; grid infrastructure is 47%. Every battery storage entry.
How many battery storage fires were there in 2026?
7 so far, of 11 battery storage entries dated 2026. The year before: 15 fires of 19 entries. Every entry dated 2026.
How many solar farm and solar panel fires are recorded?
30 fires among 77 solar entries, from utility scale farms to rooftop systems, in 11 countries. Solar fires by year, country and what failed.
How many energy incidents are recorded in the United Kingdom?
104 entries: 48 grid infrastructure, 18 solar, 28 wind and 10 battery or hybrid. Every United Kingdom entry.
How many energy incidents are recorded in the United States?
246 entries, 37 of them at battery or hybrid sites and 35 at solar sites. Every United States entry.
What fails most often: fire, electrical or mechanical?
Across the whole register, 288 entries are electrical faults, 265 are fires or thermal events and 91 are mechanical failures. Electrical faults outnumber fires. Patterns across the register.
How many wind turbine incidents are recorded?
149 wind entries, 131 onshore and 18 offshore: blade failures, nacelle fires, tower collapses and the injuries that followed. Onshore wind entries.
Do most incidents happen during commissioning or in normal operation?
550 entries (81%) happened in normal operation and 51 (7%) at commissioning, which is where contracts and insurance wordings concentrate their attention. Benchmarks by stage of life.
How many incidents does the register hold, and from where?
681 published entries from 69 countries as of 2026-09-26. Every entry written from public reporting lists its sources; confidential submissions are anonymised. Search the register.
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