Incidents from 2012 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
17 published entries. Newest first. Search and filter these in the register.
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On 26 November 2012 a failure was recorded at a battery energy storage system integrated with a solar installation in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. The system, rated at 0.5 MW and 1.5 MWh, was approximately 1.5 years old at the time of the event. The...
During Hurricane Sandy, Internap's data centre at 111 8th Avenue, New York, suffered an outage on the night before the company published its second-day update, which is dated 30 October 2012 in one record and 31 October 2012 in another. The exact date of the...
At about 19.00 local time on Sunday 12 August 2012, one of the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units on the second floor of the Indonesia Data Center (IDC) building in Duren Tiga, South Jakarta, exploded. Following standard operating procedure, staff used...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A fault in the electrical system took the Level 3 Braham Street data centre in London offline on 10 July 2012. The outage began at about 03:30 GMT and power was restored by 09:00. Technicians found four scorched bus bars, according to an incident report...
A transformer exploded at Shaw Communications' downtown headquarters, Shaw Court, in Calgary, Alberta, on the afternoon of Wednesday 11 July 2012. The explosion caused a fire. The building's sprinkler system activated, and the water damaged the backup systems...
On 7 June 2012 systems hosted at Fujitsu's Tatebayashi System Center in Japan stopped for long periods. All Tokyo Star Bank ATMs, some Resona Bank ATMs, all Sony Bank systems, some Nifty Cloud servers and Square Enix online games were affected. According to a...
On 14 June 2012 an Amazon Web Services data centre in the US-East-1 availability zone in Ashburn, Virginia, lost utility power at 8:44 p.m. Pacific time. The facility transferred to backup generators as designed. About nine minutes later a defective cooling...
On the night of 29 May 2012, Pulsant suffered a power disruption at its Maidenhead data centre that cut customer servers and firewalls off from the internet. During planned maintenance, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) failed after a device swap. The...
On Wednesday 11 April 2012, a circuit breaker on the first-floor west side of the Telehouse 2 (TH2) data centre on boulevard Voltaire, Paris, tripped at 10:17. Power was restored at 10:53. Telehouse said that customers supplied at 48V or with dual feeds were...
On 28 April 2012 a fault in power equipment at LG CNS's Gasan data centre in South Korea cut the power supply to the dedicated space leased by Kakao. KakaoTalk, KakaoStory and other Kakao services were unavailable for about four hours. Kakao had leased a...
On Friday 27 January 2012, a fire broke out at about 9:30 a.m. Pacific time at the Atchelitz substation, a BC Hydro facility on farmland just west of Chilliwack, British Columbia. Unconfirmed reports suggested that leaking fuel caught fire, and the flames...
A power surge from the public electricity network disabled the primary data centre of First National Bank (FNB) in South Africa, in early 2012 (the exact date is not stated in the source). The bank estimated the surge at around 12,000 kVA and said it was...
A power outage at a Vodafone data centre in Germany damaged server disks that helped host the M-Pesa mobile money service run by Safaricom in Kenya, according to Safaricom Kenya as reported by ITWeb Africa. The damage stopped Kenyan users from sending money,...
During servicing of a V90-2 MW turbine at the Casa del Aire wind farm in El Bonillo, Spain, an electric arc occurred in the control cabinet and led to a fire. Vestas said a fire-fighting team extinguished the flames within hours and that the fire was stopped...
A single trade-press report said that a fire last week, relative to publication on 8 August 2012, destroyed a 15MW battery bank in Hawaii. The report described it as the largest operating wind energy storage system in North America. The available text does...
In June 2012, an onshore wind turbine in the San Gorgonio Pass wind resource area, near Whitewater, east of Cabazon in Riverside County, California, United States, caught fire in what became known as the View Fire. Burning material from the elevated turbine...
In November 2012, a fire destroyed an early-generation lithium-ion battery energy storage system at a substation in North America. The system was owned and operated by an investor-owned utility. It was housed in a single container and consisted of 16...
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