Incidents from 2011 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
12 published entries. Newest first. Search and filter these in the register.
Newest incident first. Search them, or narrow them by country, year or severity. Each entry is free to read, with what happened and its sources; the record behind it adds the cause where it is established, the part that failed, the downtime and the loss.
A short circuit in an equipment vault on the Washington State government campus in Olympia caused a power surge that shut off power to the state government building housing the state's data centre in August 2011. The data centre lost utility power, and its...
At 18:16 local time on Sunday 7 August 2011, a 110kV transformer operated by ESB Networks failed at Citywest, Dublin, Ireland. The failure caused an explosion and fire, which ESB said were localised to the transformer's bushings or insulators, and serious...
On 10 August 2011 an automatic transfer switch (ATS) failed at one of the six service entrances, where utility power enters the Colo4 data centre in Dallas, Texas. The first alert of a power issue was posted at 12:40 p.m. The partial outage lasted several...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On the morning of Wednesday 27 July 2011, Telecity's Meridian Gate data centre in London lost all mains power. Tenant C4L reported that the UPS and generator did not take over, taking all customers offline and breaking its 10G network ring. Telecity told C4L...
On Thursday 14 July 2011, a power interruption at Global Switch's Sydney data centre in Australia brought down a number of customers' servers. Global Switch said a contractor mistakenly activated the fire-trip system, which shuts down UPS units in case of a...
At about 04:30 on 29 April 2011 a short circuit inside the battery cabinets serving the UPS systems at Aruba's server farm in Arezzo, Italy, started a fire, according to a statement from Aruba reproduced by Punto Informatico. The fire detection system...
On Friday 18 March 2011, Toronto police said a large transformer blew up at 4:49 p.m. at Hydro One's Richview transformer station in the west end of Toronto, Canada, near Pearson Airport. Hydro One confirmed that two transformers had caught fire. Firefighters...
On 14 March 2011, the rotor and three large blades detached from one turbine tower at the Rugby wind farm, near Rugby, North Dakota, and fell to the ground. The site, operated by Iberdrola Renewables Inc., has 71 turbines and a capacity of up to 149...
A fire broke out at Airtel's data centre and central point of presence in Malad, a suburb of Mumbai, India, in late December 2011. Airtel said the fire caused a network outage in its Western region. The Economic Times reported that the fire was caused by a...
A fire occurred on a transformer at Unit 1 of Progress Energy's Crystal River Complex shortly before 1 p.m. on a Sunday in January 2011. No injuries were reported. Three weeks earlier, on 19 December, fire crews responded to a transformer fire at Crystal...
A Vestas 2MW wind turbine at the 30MW Ardrossan wind farm in Ayrshire, Scotland, caught fire in its nacelle during a severe storm that brought winds of up to 165mph to the northern half of the UK. The owner, Infinis Energy, confirmed the nacelle had caught...
In 2011, three workers died following an incident in the nacelle of a Sinovel turbine at an onshore wind farm in northern China. Sector trade press reporting indicated that the sequence began when one worker suffered an electric shock in the nacelle. Two...
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