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On the morning of 16 October 2026, at about 7am according to the source, a fire was reported at the Nijnegorskaïa electrical substation (PS 110/35/10 kV) on Molodijna Street in the village of Nijnegorski, in Crimea, which the source describes as temporarily...
An explosion occurred on the night of Wednesday 14 October 2026 at City Power's Central substation in Marshalltown, Johannesburg CBD, as technicians were assessing repairs at the site. It followed a fire the night before, the fourth fire at the substation...
Local media report an explosion at the substation near Friedrichstadt in the Nordfriesland area of northern Germany, reported on 18 October 2026. The explosion was followed by a large-scale power outage. Several fire service operations were reported across...
Overnight on 18 October 2026, St. Petersburg and Leningrad region came under a drone attack. Russian outlets ASTRA and Baza reported that the Vostochnaya electrical substation in the village of Novosergievka, Vsevolozhsk district, near the boundary with St....
On Friday evening, 16 October 2026, a technical fault occurred at the Amda substation in the Barhani area of Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh, according to local press. The fault cut supply on all 10 feeders connected to the substation, leaving about 120...
On Thursday 15 October 2026, at about 4 p.m., a landslide incapacitated the Ketchikan Public Utilities Ward Cove Electrical Substation in Ketchikan. According to the City of Ketchikan public information officer, rain and wind caused trees, rocks and mud near...
A fire broke out in an electrical substation inside Plaza City Center, a shopping plaza in Villahermosa, the capital of Tabasco, Mexico, on Saturday 17 October 2026. The substation is on Bogotá street, a pedestrian-only area within the plaza. Firefighters...
On Wednesday evening, 14 October 2026 (the date is inferred from the report, which refers to Wednesday evening and to a restoration target of Thursday 15 October), an explosion occurred at Central Substation in Johannesburg, according to City Power. The blast...
On 17 October 2026 the Daily Mirror reported that Sri Lanka was experiencing an islandwide power outage. The National System Operator confirmed that electricity supply had been interrupted across the country and that efforts were under way to restore power....
A fire involving an energy storage system at a single-family house in Mchy, Poland, was reported by PortalSremski.pl on 17 October 2026. The report's headline identifies the fire as involving an energy storage unit at a detached home. The feed summary carries...
A fire at the Chencuogang substation was reported by Shihua Daily on 17 October 2026. A statement attributed to Guoneng said electricity supply was restored within 77 minutes. Two technicians were reported injured, and their condition was described as stable....
At about 07:04 local time on 17 October 2026, a power outage occurred at the Thu Duc 220kV substation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The outage cut supply to part of Thu Duc district and affected Metro Line 1 (Ben Thanh to Suoi Tien). According to Ho Chi Minh...
On 16 October 2026 a fire broke out at about 6.03pm at the Kangkar Tebrau main intake substation in Johor Bahru, operated by Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB). Reports say an explosion sound was heard at the site. The fire interrupted supply and caused a blackout...
A fire was reported at the Nyzhnohirska substation (PS 110/35/10 kV) in Nyzhnohirskyi town, Crimea, on the morning of 16 October 2026. According to a Telegram channel called Krymsky Veter, relayed by Ukrinform and reported by Mezha, the substation was burning...
A fourth fire broke out at City Power's Central substation in Marshalltown, in the Johannesburg CBD, overnight before Eyewitness News reported on 14 October 2026. The fire followed three earlier fires at the substation, which had caused consecutive outages in...
Overnight, reported by police on 16 October 2026, the trailer of a heavy-load transporter left a gravel forest track near the Hohe Molmert wind park, near Plettenberg in the Märkischer Kreis, Germany. The trailer was carrying a wind turbine blade weighing...
A fire broke out at City Power's Central substation in Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon, 13 October 2026, according to EWN and TimesLive. City Power described it as the fourth fire at the facility in roughly two months. The fire damaged feeder board 4 and...
On the evening of Wednesday 14 October 2026, according to a report in Cairo 24, a fire broke out in an electricity transformer known as the Kharit transformer, in the Nasr El Nuba centre, Aswan Governorate, Egypt. It was the second fire at this transformer,...
A transformer at a 132 kV substation opposite the Old College in Narwana, Jind, caught fire suddenly on Wednesday 14 October 2026, according to a local report published by Atal Hind. Flames were reported to be visible from several parts of the town. Five to...
Two people were injured in a fire that broke out at an electricity transformer on the Toshka road, east of Al-Owainat in Aswan governorate, Egypt, according to a report published by Al-Masry Al-Youm on 14 October 2026. The competent authorities received a...