Safety incidents, near-misses and operational failures involving other assets, with lessons learned.
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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 20 January 2026 at 16:53, both units at Koeberg Nuclear Power Station were reduced from full power to 100 MW each after a fault on the 132 kV transmission lines supplied from the Pinotage transmission substation near Stellenbosch. Eskom said the reduction...
Firefighters from Iași were called to a fire in an industrial hall on the premises of the Iași combined heat and power plant (CET). Flames were reported to be affecting the first floor over an area of about 1,000 square metres, in a hall of roughly 5,000...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
Algoma Steel Group, based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, reported an unplanned outage at its Lake Superior Power generating facility. One turbine unit detected an abnormal condition and went offline. The company said the remaining units were unaffected....
On 23 November 2025 a fire broke out at electrical switchgear at the Dresden power generation facility in New York state, USA, owned by Greenidge Generation LLC, a subsidiary of Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. The facility is a 106 MW natural gas plant...
The third generator at the Lakvijaya coal power plant in Norochcholai, Sri Lanka, was added to the national grid and then malfunctioned again due to a technical fault, according to a Sunday Times report. The report says the loss of this generator removes 270...
On 29 June 2024, Telangana Today reported that lightning struck the first-unit power transformer at Bhadradri Thermal Power Station in Manugur, Kothagudem district, and that a fire broke out. Firefighters attended and were working to extinguish the flames...
An explosion at Enel Green Power's Bargi hydroelectric plant in the Bologna province of northern Italy killed seven workers. The blast happened during work to increase the plant's efficiency, according to the company. A fire broke out after a turbine exploded...
Recharge News reported that a container holding superheated salt used to store energy burst at the Noor III solar power facility in Morocco operated by ACWA Power. The report said the leak caused an outage lasting until November and would cost the owner ACWA...
Fire and Rescue NSW crews responded to a dangerous heat build-up at a thermal energy storage plant in Laverick Avenue, Tomago, in the Hunter Valley, just after 5.15 in the morning on 6 October 2023. Three employees reached safety. An 800 metre exclusion zone...
A fire broke out at Unit 1 in the underground tunnel area of the Srisailam hydroelectric power station, on the left bank of the Srisailam dam in Telangana, India, at around 10:30pm local time on the night of 20 August 2020, according to a report published on...
On the evening of 12 November 2019, a fire broke out at the top of the central tower of the Cerro Dominador concentrated solar thermal plant in Antofagasta, northern Chile. The operator announced the fire on its social media account. The source reports that...
Firefighters were called to the Lisahally Biomass Power Plant near Derry Port at about 19:30 on a Sunday evening after reports of a ruptured steam pipe. The source describes the event as an explosion at the plant. A command team, four pumps and an aerial unit...
A fire occurred at one of the three towers at the Ivanpah concentrated solar power plant in the Mojave desert. Metal pipes in the tower were scorched and melted. The fire service suggested misaligned mirrors may have concentrated sunlight on the wrong part of...
A worker was killed in an explosion while handling explosives at the Boulder Creek Hydroelectric project, about 50 kilometres north of Pemberton, Canada. A second person was seriously injured and taken to a hospital in the Lower Mainland. WorkSafeBC and the...
An explosion and fire occurred in the basement of 811 Wilshire Boulevard, a commercial and office building in downtown Los Angeles, at about 10:10 pm on Thursday 20 August 2015. Firefighters, reported as 160 or 161 depending on the source, brought the fire...
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