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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...
At 11:52 pm on Monday 12 October 2026, an outage affected customers of Rochester Public Utilities (RPU) in Rochester. RPU officials said it followed an equipment failure at the utility's Cascade Creek Substation, in which insulation on a current transformer...
As of 14 October 2026, power outages were reported in the temporarily occupied cities of Donetsk and Makiivka, Ukraine. Local residents reported a fire at a substation between the two cities, and footage of the fire was reported to be visible from parts of...
A fire broke out at about 18:09 local time on 13 October 2026 at a power transformer within the Seodaejeon substation in Byeondong, Seo-gu, Daejeon. The substation is operated by Korea Electric Power Corporation. Part of the transformer was burned. Daejeon...
A wind turbine at the La Rumorosa wind farm in Tecate municipality, Baja California, Mexico, was reported on fire on Tuesday 13 October 2026. Local media reported that the emergency became known that morning. The turbine is reported to belong to the...
On the morning of Tuesday 13 October 2026, a lightning strike hit equipment at a Copel substation supplying the municipality of Mamborê, in the Centro-Oeste region of Paraná, Brazil. The strike produced an electric arc in components of the unit, causing a...
Drones attacked a Yandex data centre in the Vladimir region of Russia on 11 October 2026, according to Yandex, which said its infrastructure was damaged and the data centre had been completely shut down. Yandex said no one was injured, but some of its...
On 13 October 2026, a fire broke out at a solar power generation facility in Daesan-eup, Seosan, South Chungcheong, at about 10:50 local time. Fire services reported that the blaze was fully extinguished at about 11:32, roughly 42 minutes after the emergency...