September 2026: what the register recorded
71 incidents dated September 2026 are on the register as of 2026-10-01: 44 at grid infrastructure, 18 at solar PV, 5 at hybrid co-located, 2 at battery storage, 2 at wind (onshore). 8 classed major, 36 significant. That is 51 more than August 2026 (20).
Read this as a count of what is recorded, not of what happened. Entries for a month keep arriving for weeks as reporting catches up and the recheck confirms them, so this page is regenerated on every build and the figures move. 1,267 entries were published during the month, most of them about earlier years; that number is not incidents in the month. The methodology says how entries are found and checked.
Classed major
- Transformer blast kills three farmers in a field in Bemetara
- Cuba nationwide grid collapse follows high-voltage transmission line failure
- Fire at a solar farm in the Landes spreads into forest
- Transformer explosion kills worker during repair in Ghaziabad
- Solar panels involved in fire that destroyed a Sidmouth bungalow
- Explosion and fire at a LUMA Energy substation in Carolina leaves over 217,000 without power
- Worker dies after fall inside turbine at PPAW wind farm
- Lithium-ion battery explosion leads to prolonged thermal event at a US solar and storage site
Classed significant
- Fire at solar panels near Inba-numa after flooding in Narita
- Explosion and fire at Chinchwad Extra High Voltage Substation, Pune disrupts power
- Fires at Fordsburg substation and Central substation in Johannesburg
- Current transformer explosion and fire at Chinchwad transmission substation cuts power to about 310,000 consumers, Pune, India
- Reported grid failure in Kazakhstan after generation shutdown in Uzbekistan
- Transformer explosion reported in Yozgat centre
- Incipient fire at San Mateo substation cuts power in Cúcuta
- Fire at Subestación América disrupts supply in Daule and Santa Lucía
- Fire destroys 28 battery packs at KEPCO ESS site in Daejeon
- Transformer fire at Lakeview Avenue substation prompts emergency in Mayville, New York
- Fire breaks out at Ausgrid's Mason Park substation in Homebush, Sydney
- Fire at Lambert Street substation cuts power to Pietermaritzburg CBD
- Fire destroys turbine at Whitelee windfarm near Glasgow
- Transformer fire at Blue Hills power plant disrupts supply in New Providence
- Lithium ion battery fire at Metropolitan Water District facility La Verne
- Fire at Girga transformer station cuts power to four centres
- Substation fire in Nagano City reported to have cut power to about 5,200 households
- Fire at Hermes Road substation in Saltford, Bath causes mass outage
- Fire at Johannesburg central substation linked to suspected cable theft
- Battery room fire at Long Atip solar hybrid station in Sarawak contained by site staff
- Substation fire reported to have caused BART service delays, San Francisco Bay Area
- Substation Incident in Germany Disconnects Five RWE Lignite Power Units
- Fire at electrical substation on Tsitsernakaberd Highway in Yerevan
- Transformer fire in New Haven causes power outages and a road closure
- Construction site fire spreads to Tiergarten substation amid grid sabotage probe
And 11 more, on the register.
Where, and what kind
By country
- United States
- India
- South Africa
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Brazil
- Germany
- Spain
- Italy
- Japan
- Puerto Rico
- South Korea
By kind
- Electrical
- Thermal / fire
- Other
The register as a whole
1,374 published entries from 89 countries as of 2026-10-01. 647 grid infrastructure (47%), 138 battery storage (10%). 554 electrical faults against 557 fires or thermal events. 76% in normal operation, 6% at commissioning.
The full picture, with what failed and what the numbers cannot show, is in the quarterly report. Every entry names its sources; a correction is free for anyone, always.
Cite as: Energy Incident Register (2026). September 2026: what the register recorded. https://energyincidentregister.com/reports/2026-09