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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...
A wind turbine at the High Prairie Renewable Energy Center collapsed just off Route A, west of Willmathsville in Adair County, Missouri, early on a Saturday morning. Residents reported hearing two loud noises between 4 and 4:30 a.m. The Adair County Sheriff's...
A fire broke out at about 19:14 in a storage premises (bajera) of a building on calle Basilio Armendáriz in Burlada, Navarre, Spain. The fire affected an electricity transformer and caused a power cut to several neighbouring entrances (portales). Several...
Early on Monday morning, 26 October 2026, a short circuit in the wires on an electricity pole in B-Block of Shalimar Garden Extension-2, Sahibabad, in Ghaziabad, set the wires on fire. A local organiser reported that the fire started at about 4:30 am. The...
On Monday 26 October 2026, a squirrel apparently blew a transformer on a utility pole in Monroe, North Carolina, setting the pole on fire. The pole stood outside the Union County Library in the downtown area, which was being used as an early voting site....
On a Monday afternoon, a fire broke out in one of the inverters serving the solar panels on an intermediate floor of the Kühne+Nagel distribution centre on Industrieweg in Tessenderlo, Belgium, according to HBVL. The fire produced a large amount of smoke. A...
In the night to Sunday, which local reporting gives as 25 October 2026, a wind turbine collapsed and fell onto two fields in Weeze, in the Kreis Kleve district of Germany, according to a local report by NRZ. The report says that much about the incident...
The Sudan Electricity Holding Company said drone attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted five power substations in Singa, Al-Hawata, Al-Faw, Mashkur and Al-Junaid in central and southeastern Sudan. The company said the attacks caused significant...
A fire broke out at a substation operated by CPFL (Companhia Paulista de Força e Luz) in Ipuã, Brazil, on the morning of Friday 23 October 2026, at about the end of the morning. Residents lost electricity. Images circulating on social media showed fire at the...
At about 11.10pm on Thursday 22 October 2026, an explosion involving equipment on an electricity pylon in Grantham, Lincolnshire, damaged a vehicle and two nearby properties. National Grid has confirmed a fault involving equipment on one of its pylons in...
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...