Theft, vandalism and arson at energy sites
Counted from the live register.
Fires and faults are not the only way an energy site loses money. Cable is cut and taken, modules are stripped from mounting rails, substations are broken into, and sites are set alight. This page counts what the register holds on crime at energy assets, and is honest about what it does not hold.
Counting...
What kind of crime
By year
By technology, and where
Every entry
What this page cannot tell you yet
Three things, said plainly, because a security manager will work them out in a minute and it is better to say them first.
- The register under-counts crime. Entries are written from published reporting, and a fire gets reported where a cable theft usually does not. An operator often has no reason to tell anyone. So these figures are a floor, not a total.
- Losses are rarely stated. A report says cable was taken. It does not often say how much, what it cost to replace, or how long the site was down.
- What the site had in place is almost never reported. Whether there was a fence, a camera, a monitored alarm or nothing at all is the question every security assessment starts with, and public reporting answers it in a handful of cases.
- Some of these are suspicions, not findings. Where the reporting says suspected, alleged or under investigation, the entry says so and it is marked on the list below. The register does not decide a cause that no source has established, and entries whose sources rule the crime out are left off this page entirely.
Those gaps are the reason the confidential route exists. An operator or a security provider can send an incident through the site and it is anonymised absolutely: no site, no company, no product, no person, country and year only, in the public entry and in the paid record. That rule never bends, which is why people use it.
If you work in site security
- Evidence for a proposal or a risk review. Every entry here is free to read and carries its sources, so a figure you quote can be checked by the person you quote it to.
- The full record adds the operator, the owner and the equipment involved where the reporting names them, and every source. From £39 a month.
- The API serves the same records to your own reporting or platform: how the API works.
- Alerts send you new incidents matching the technologies and countries you watch, free: set up alerts.
- Send us what you see. If your clients will not go on the record, the confidential route anonymises absolutely and still puts the lesson in front of the industry.