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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
At about 9:50 am on 28 October 2026, roughly 10,000 homes were left without power in western Yokkaichi, parts of Komono and parts of Suzuka in Mie Prefecture. According to Chubu Electric Power Grid, based in Nagoya, the outage was caused by a work error...
On Tuesday 27 October 2026, a failure on the national power grid cut electricity in eastern Dhaka and parts of Chattogram at around 12.45 pm, according to Prothom Alo English. Several power plants shut down following the grid failure and began restarting one...
On the 24th (the source gives the day only; October 2026 is inferred from the report date), a fire broke out near the base of the blades on Unit 2 of the Tohaku Wind Power Plant in Kotoura, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The fire started close to the area where...
On a Tuesday around midday, a fire destroyed the electrical substation serving the village of Alacranes, in the municipality of Unión de Reyes, Matanzas province, according to Radio Unión Matanzas as reported by CiberCuba. About 3,700 customers lost supply...
On Tuesday evening, 27 October 2026, a traction power substation at MARTA's Brookhaven station on the Gold Line in DeKalb County, Georgia, caught fire, according to MARTA and a report by WSB-TV. MARTA said rail service was disrupted and that all patrons were...
On the morning of 27 October 2026, two people suffered burns during repair work at a transformer substation serving the Parkwood residential complex in Tashkent, according to the Tashkent city administration. Preliminary information indicates that a...