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On 23 October 2026, a distribution box (transformer box) exploded on Suao New City South Road in Suao, Yilan County, Taiwan, as a typhoon approached the area. According to the report, the incident happened at about 15:50 during strong winds, when the power...
On 19 October 2026, a power outage at a data centre in northern Portugal operated by SPMS, the agency responsible for the Ministry of Health's shared technology systems, took several computer systems offline across the National Health Service (SNS). According...
A fire broke out in a second-floor room of a house in the Khatkhata Baba Colony on Ramlila Road, in the Kotwali area of Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India, on the afternoon of Thursday 22 October 2026. The house had a rooftop solar system installed about two months...
Around 1 am on Wednesday 21 October 2026, according to a report published on 22 October, an unidentified person set fire to rubbish lying on a road near the Maharaja Doodh Dairy in the Nazirabad police station area of Kanpur, close to the Ashok Nagar petrol...
On a Wednesday afternoon in October 2026, a smouldering fire broke out in a battery installation at a data centre on Nonnendammallee in Spandau, Berlin, according to BZ Berlin. The fire did not start in the server room but in an adjacent technical area....
On Monday 19 October 2026, at about 7.13 am, the Highmore Volunteer Fire Department responded to a fire at a wind turbine 10 miles south of Highmore, South Dakota. Dispatch confirmed before crews arrived that all workers were accounted for and that no one was...
At around 05:00 on Wednesday 21 October 2026, a fault at the Ferryhill substation on Deemount Gardens in Ferryhill, Aberdeen, caused a small fire in the building. Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was alerted at 05:06 and sent two appliances, which...
News24 reported that an outage at the Braamfontein substation in Johannesburg, South Africa, held up students travelling to sit their exams on Tuesday 20 October 2026 and significantly affected traffic. The article headline describes the event as a substation...
At about 13:24 on 21 October 2026, a fire broke out on the rooftop of a three-storey kindergarten building in Seongseong-dong, Seobuk-gu, Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province. The fire started in the solar charging panels installed on the roof. The...
According to a report published by nativacapinzal.net on 20 October 2026, a short circuit in the solar energy system at the Municipal Gymnasium in Peritiba is reported to have started a fire at the building. Only the headline and a short summary were...
Fires in an underground power cable and in the lead of a distribution transformer interrupted electricity supply in the Kalimahal and Chetganj areas of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, over the weekend of 17 and 18 October 2026. In Kalimahal, an underground cable...
At midday, a transformer at the TEİAŞ substation on the Silvan road in Diyarbakır, Turkey, exploded, and smoke from the blast was seen from many parts of the city. Fire and emergency teams were dispatched and the transformer fire was brought under control and...
Chile's Investigations Police (PDI) and prosecutors are investigating damage at the Cancura wind farm, in the rural area of Angol in the La Araucanía region, as a suspected arson attack. According to the report, one or more people may have entered the site on...
Negros Electric and Power Corp. (Negros Power) reportedly energised a replacement transformer at its Asdes Gonzaga Substation, in Bacolod according to a linked article headline, 12 days after the aging unit failed. Emergency assistance was reportedly provided...
On 18 October 2026, a further power failure occurred at the Linden substation in the Dithmarschen district of western Schleswig-Holstein, operated by SH Netz (Schleswig-Holstein Netz). The failure followed an earlier power cut in the west of the state and led...
A fire broke out on the morning of Sunday 18 October 2026 at the solar plant of the Skylark Solar Battery Factory, on the road between Amani village and Khanaura in the Tohana area of Fatehabad district, Haryana. The local report says the fire started at...
On Sunday 18 October 2026, residents of El Manzano, a sector south of Barquisimeto in Iribarren municipality, reported a fire at an electrical substation belonging to the state company Corpoelec, according to El Impulso. Residents shared images and video on...
A 25 kVA transformer at Pipaldanda in Mulfa Bazaar, Kalikot, malfunctioned at about 12:30 a.m., according to a Nepal News report published on 18 October 2026. The failure led to the shutdown of the Tila feeder, disrupting electricity supply to Jumla and Mugu...
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...