Energy incidents in 2026: the year so far, counted from the register
As of 2 November 2026, the register holds 574 published incidents at battery storage, solar, wind, grid and data centre sites dated 2026, against 177 for the same months of 2025. Most of that rise is the register, not the world: it widened in 2026 to take in substations, solar and wind at scale. Two technologies have been recorded the same way since 2024 and bear comparison: battery storage 27 (16 in the same months of 2025, 22 in the whole year); data centre 21 (13 in the same months of 2025, 18 in the whole year). Every figure on this page is counted from the published entries when the site is built and links to the incidents behind it.
By technology
Incidents by the year they happened. "Same months" is January to November of 2025, the fair comparison for a year in progress. An entry dated only to its year counts in the whole-year column and not in the same-months one. The change column is a change in what the register holds; for grid, solar and wind it mostly reflects wider recording from 2026, and only the battery storage and data centre rows compare like with like.
| Technology | 2024 | 2025 | 2025, same months | 2026 so far | Change on the same months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery storage | 17 | 22 | 16 | 27 | +69% |
| Solar PV | 61 | 60 | 40 | 119 | +198% |
| Data centre | 14 | 18 | 13 | 21 | +62% |
| Grid infrastructure | 131 | 105 | 81 | 327 | +304% |
| Wind (onshore) | 40 | 33 | 19 | 62 | +226% |
| Wind (offshore) | 7 | 4 | 2 | 6 | +200% |
| Hybrid co-located | 7 | 7 | 5 | 8 | +60% |
| Other | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | +300% |
| All technologies | 280 | 251 | 177 | 574 | +224% |
By month
Bars: incidents by the month they happened in 2026; the current month is in progress and shown paler. Dots: the same month of 2025. Entries dated only to the year are not in the chart.
Where
The 72 countries with an incident dated 2026, most first.
| Country | 2026 so far | Whole of 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 149 | 87 |
| India | 57 | 10 |
| United Kingdom | 48 | 46 |
| Germany | 34 | 6 |
| South Africa | 27 | 12 |
| Spain | 15 | 4 |
| South Korea | 13 | 13 |
| Turkey | 13 | 0 |
| Brazil | 12 | 4 |
| Italy | 11 | 4 |
| Ukraine | 11 | 1 |
| France | 9 | 1 |
60 more countries have one or two incidents each; all are on the country pages.
How serious
Significant: 306. Minor: 221. Major: 42. Near-miss: 5. Severity is graded by the register's method from what the sources report.
The major incidents of 2026
- EIR-2708: Drone strikes disable power substations across Sudan's army-held areas
- EIR-2607: Power grid failure hits eastern Dhaka and parts of Chattogram
- EIR-2603: Fire destroys substation in Alacranes, Matanzas, Cuba, cutting power to about 3,700 customers
- EIR-2576: Wind turbine collapses onto fields in Weeze, Germany
- EIR-2575: Drone attacks damage five Sudanese power substations, causing southeast blackout
- EIR-2426: Islandwide power outage in Sri Lanka prompts request for rooftop solar systems to be switched off
- EIR-2308: Man found dead beside Johor substation, electrocution from cable theft suspected
- EIR-2189: Rooftop solar panel falls in storm, killing two in Firozabad
- EIR-2186: Operator killed in electrocution at 33 kV substation in Unnao
- EIR-2170: Grid fault cuts power to Lanzarote and disrupts desalination water supply
- EIR-2119: Transformer explosion injures four near Bengaluru warehouse
- EIR-2420: Lineman dies during substation repair work in Mayville, New York
- EIR-1832: Transformer explosion kills two students in Narayanganj
- EIR-1468: Solar panels involved in fire that destroyed a Sidmouth bungalow
- EIR-1343: Worker dies after fall inside turbine at PPAW wind farm
- EIR-1327: Transformer blast kills three farmers in a field in Bemetara
- EIR-1308: Transformer explosion kills worker during repair in Ghaziabad
- EIR-1220: Explosion and fire at a LUMA Energy substation in Carolina leaves over 217,000 without power
- EIR-1154: Cuba nationwide grid collapse follows high-voltage transmission line failure
- EIR-0925: Fire at a solar farm in the Landes spreads into forest
- EIR-0207: Maintenance worker killed after being trapped in turbine blade mechanism in Italy
- EIR-0201: Turbine nacelle destroyed by fire at Pubnico Point Wind Farm, Nova Scotia
- EIR-2406: Tree falling on power lines sparked Colorado's Aspen Acres fire
- EIR-0642: Rooftop solar fire at Lineage Cold Storage Warehouse in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
- EIR-0257: Cable insulation failure blamed for fire at GRIDCo's Akosombo Substation
- EIR-2221: Fatal fire at Yeongdeok wind farm during blade crack repair
- EIR-1896: Strikes on Amazon Web Services UAE data centre cause fire and power loss
- EIR-0330: Fire at Zhuyuan Extra High Voltage substation in Hsinchu kills two workers
- EIR-0327: Three workers die in wind turbine fire in South Korea
- EIR-1984: Transformer explosion near Vantage Data Centers injures worker in San Antonio
- EIR-0346: Two workers die after work basket fall at Birstein wind turbine, Germany
- EIR-2649: Substation operator dies in suspected electric shock at Kurreli, Chhattisgarh
- EIR-2638: Solar installer electrocuted while repairing ruptured power line in Basista
- EIR-1624: Crane topples on Scout Moor wind farm project
- EIR-1623: Attack on South Zawiya substation causes outage south of Zawiya
- EIR-1622: Wind turbine reported to have collapsed in the Přerov region after weeks idle
- EIR-1620: Transformer explosion at new al-Farabi power station in Baghdad kills one staff member
- EIR-0875: Man electrocuted after break-in at Spanish wind turbine, arrests reported
- EIR-0375: Coroner's inquest reported to have made safety recommendations after a fatal accident during wind farm construction
- EIR-0298: Substation fire reported to have cut about 1,000 MW from a national electricity supply
- EIR-0285: Construction worker dies after crane falls from cliff at Korean wind farm site
- EIR-0280: Transformer fault causes fatal power surge in Gundli Village, Rajasthan
What is known about them
Of the 574 incidents dated 2026, the full record names the root cause for 342, the part that failed for 315 and the fire service response for 319; 16 carry a downtime and 2 a loss figure. The rest are still being reported, or were never reported in full: a first report is not a finding, and the register updates an entry when the cause is published. The full records are part of a membership; the public entry for every incident is free.
Reading these figures
- This is a register of incidents reported in public, with sources, not a count of every incident that happened. An incident nobody reported is not here.
- The register's own coverage grew in 2026: substations, solar and wind are recorded at a scale they were not in 2025. A rise in those rows is a rise in recording. Battery storage and data centres have been recorded the same way since 2024.
- Reporting is uneven: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia publish more than most countries, so they appear more often.
- Recent months fill in late. An incident is often added weeks after it happened, when a source is published, so the current month's bar will rise.
- Same-months comparisons are fairer than year against year while a year is in progress, and still move as late reports arrive.
- Nothing here attributes an incident to a manufacturer, installer or operator. Companies appear in the full record where a source names them.
Sources and method
- Counted from the 2,242 published entries of the Energy Incident Register when the site was built on 2 November 2026. Each entry links to its sources.
- An incident is dated by the day it happened, not the day it was reported. The register's methodology sets out what is recorded and how severity is graded.
- The data behind the page is free to download: download the data. Charts that may be reused with attribution: charts to reuse.
- Figures on this page may be quoted with attribution to the Energy Incident Register and a link to this page. Press: press page.