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 2026-11-11, 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?
127 of the 149 battery storage entries on the register are fires or thermal events. Battery storage is 6% of everything recorded; grid infrastructure is 51%. Every battery storage entry.
How many battery storage fires were there in 2026?
22 so far, of 28 battery storage entries dated 2026. The year before: 19 fires of 24 entries. Every entry dated 2026.
How many solar farm and solar panel fires are recorded?
262 fires among 411 solar entries, from utility scale farms to rooftop systems, in 37 countries. Solar fires by year, country and what failed.
How many energy incidents are recorded in the United Kingdom?
314 entries: 119 grid infrastructure, 97 solar, 62 wind and 14 battery or hybrid. Every United Kingdom entry.
How many energy incidents are recorded in the United States?
824 entries, 60 of them at battery or hybrid sites and 154 at solar sites. Every United States entry.
What fails most often: fire, electrical or mechanical?
Across the whole register, 966 entries are electrical faults, 1,049 are fires or thermal events and 221 are mechanical failures. Fires and electrical faults run close. Patterns across the register.
How many data centre fires are recorded?
59 fires among 180 data centre entries, in the power systems: UPS and battery rooms, backup generators, switchgear, transformers and fuel. Data centre fires and power failures.
How many wind turbine incidents are recorded?
351 wind entries, 310 onshore and 41 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?
1,396 entries (59%) happened in normal operation and 104 (4%) 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?
2,386 published entries from 103 countries as of 2026-11-11. Every entry written from public reporting lists its sources; confidential submissions are anonymised. Search the register.
How many battery storage fires have there been in the UK?
9 of the 14 United Kingdom battery storage entries are fires or thermal events, 1 of them dated 2026. Every United Kingdom entry.
How many battery storage fires have there been in the United States in 2026?
9 so far in 2026, of 48 United States battery storage fires on the register in all, from 60 battery or hybrid entries. Every United States entry.
How many data centre fires were there in 2025 and 2026?
8 data centre fires dated 2025 and 11 so far in 2026, among 40 data centre entries for the two years: UPS and battery rooms, generators, switchgear and transformers. Data centre fires and power failures.
How often do wind turbines catch fire?
121 of the 351 wind entries on the register are fires, 34 of them dated 2026; the rest are blade failures, collapses and electrical faults. Onshore wind entries.
How common are substation and transformer fires?
429 of the 1,228 grid infrastructure entries (substations, transformers, lines and switchgear) are fires or thermal events, in 87 countries; 138 are dated 2026. Grid infrastructure entries.
Are battery storage fires becoming more or less common?
The register holds 16 battery storage fires dated 2024, 19 dated 2025 and 22 so far in 2026. Read these as counts of what is recorded: the register is new and has been filling in an archive, so a rise across years measures the register before it measures the world. Every battery storage entry.
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