Battery, solar, wind, grid and data centre incidents, checked against their sources.
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Grid infrastructureVenezuelaEIR-2720 Nov 2026Added 3 Nov 2026
An explosion was reported on the evening of Monday 2 November at the Constitución substation in the Lagunillas municipality of Zulia state, Venezuela. According to reports, the incident happened shortly after 7.30pm and left much of Libertad parish without...
Grid infrastructureVenezuelaEIR-2719 Nov 2026Added 3 Nov 2026
Local media report that an explosion and fire occurred at the Federación substation in Libertad parish, Lagunillas municipality, Zulia state, Venezuela, which reportedly left several sectors of Ciudad Ojeda without electricity. Videos shared on social media...
Grid infrastructureUnited StatesEIR-2716 Nov 2026Added 3 Nov 2026
On Monday 2 November 2026, an incident at Pepco's I Street Substation in the Foggy Bottom neighbourhood of Washington, DC, cut power to more than 1,000 customers. Pepco said about 1,100 customers were affected. The DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services...
Grid infrastructureSwitzerlandEIR-2713 Nov 2026Added 3 Nov 2026
MajorElectricalReported
A 59-year-old man died on Sunday 1 November 2026 after receiving an electric shock inside a fenced transformer station operated by Swiss Federal Railways (FFS) near Cham railway station in Canton Zug. Zug police were alerted shortly after 10am and found the...
Wind (onshore)MauritaniaEIR-2711 Nov 2026Added 2 Nov 2026
On the evening of Sunday 1 November 2026, a fire was reported in one unit of the Boulenouar wind farm in the Dakhlet Nouadhibou region, in the hinterland of Nouadhibou, Mauritania. The source places the fire at an installation in the Souweissiya area near the...
Grid infrastructureAustriaEIR-2709 Nov 2026Added 1 Nov 2026
On Sunday afternoon, 1 November 2026, a large-scale power cut affected the south of the city of Salzburg and the northern Tennengau area of Austria. According to Salzburg AG, the outage originated from a transformer that caught fire at the Elsbethen...
Grid infrastructureSudanEIR-2708 Nov 2026Added 1 Nov 2026
Drone strikes in the days before and including Sunday, 1 November 2026 (the source gives relative days, so exact dates are inferred), hit electricity facilities in army-held areas of Sudan. The government and the rights group Emergency Lawyers blamed the...
Grid infrastructureSudanEIR-2744 Oct 2026Added 3 Nov 2026
In the early hours of Wednesday 28 October 2026, drones reportedly attacked the city of Al Manaqil in Sudan's Al Jazirah State. Footage circulating online showed a fire at a fuel depot. Misbar compared Sentinel-2 satellite images from 23 and 28 October and...
Grid infrastructureSudanEIR-2743 Oct 2026Added 3 Nov 2026
In the early hours of Wednesday 28 October 2026, drones reportedly struck Al Manaqil in Sudan's Al Jazirah State. Reported targets included the city's power station and transmission substation, a fuel distribution station and a fuel depot east of the city....
Grid infrastructureSudanEIR-2742 Oct 2026Added 3 Nov 2026
Misbar reported on 31 October 2026 that drones attacked infrastructure in Al Manaqil, a city in Sudan's Al Jazirah State, in the early hours of 28 October. Footage circulating online showed a fire at a fuel depot after the attack. Local sources told Sudan...
Grid infrastructureIndiaEIR-2738 Oct 2026Added 3 Nov 2026
According to a Hindi-language local report published on 30 October 2026, rain linked to a storm reported as Cyclone Arnab disrupted the electricity supply in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. The report says power was cut for several hours in areas including Shahpur,...
Grid infrastructureIndiaEIR-2737 Oct 2026Added 3 Nov 2026
On 30 October 2026, rain disrupted the electricity supply in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, according to a Jagran report. Several localities, including Shahpur, Rapti Nagar, Durgabari, Surajkund, Rustampur and Rani Bagh, lost power for hours. The report...
Grid infrastructureUnited StatesEIR-2706 Oct 2026Added 1 Nov 2026
Overnight, downed power lines crossed Highway 26 at Murray Boulevard in Portland, Oregon, and some lines landed on and around a black Bronco. All lanes of the highway were closed at Murray Boulevard for several hours while Portland General Electric crews...
Wind (onshore)TurkeyEIR-2650 Oct 2026Added 31 Oct 2026
A fire broke out in a wind turbine at Yenidoğan neighbourhood, on the Söke-Milas road in Söke district, Aydın province, Türkiye, according to a local news report published on 31 October 2026. The turbine belongs to an energy company, which the report does not...
Oct 2026Added 31 Oct 2026
On 31 October 2026, a fire broke out at the Hsinta Power Plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, operated by Taiwan Power Company. The fire was on the roof of the boiler house for the new gas unit 3, where waterproofing work was under way. The waterproofing membrane...
Wind (onshore)FranceEIR-2646 Oct 2026Added 31 Oct 2026
On the evening of Friday 30 October 2026, a fire broke out at the top of a wind turbine at the La Chapelle-Gaudin wind farm in Argentonnay, Deux-Sèvres, France. Local media reported an orange fireball and a plume of smoke. Firefighters from the Deux-Sèvres...
Grid infrastructureItalyEIR-2639 Oct 2026Added 31 Oct 2026
A fire broke out at an electrical cabin on Via Fontana in Capriati a Volturno, Caserta province, Italy, at about 3am during the night of 29 to 30 October 2026. Residents saw the flames and alerted the emergency number 115. A crew from the Piedimonte Matese...
Grid infrastructureIndiaEIR-2637 Oct 2026Added 31 Oct 2026
MinorThermal / fireReported
On a Friday morning around 9am, a cable on a transformer in the Vijay Chowk feeder area, served by the University substation in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, caught fire. The fire was intense enough that the fire brigade was called. According to the report, the...
Grid infrastructureUnited KingdomEIR-2636 Oct 2026Added 29 Oct 2026
MinorThermal / fireReported
Homes in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, lost power on the evening of 29 October 2026 after an electrical transformer caught fire on Hensington Road. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service attended and extinguished the fire. Thames Valley Police's Woodstock...
Grid infrastructureUnited StatesEIR-2609 Oct 2026Added 29 Oct 2026
On Wednesday 28 October 2026, a contractor cutting a transformer with a torch ignited residual oil inside an otherwise empty warehouse at 5 Cut St. in Alton, Illinois. Alton Fire Department was dispatched at 3:52 pm to a reported commercial structure fire and...