Incidents from 2013 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
14 published entries. Newest first. Search and filter these in the register.
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A local power cut in Zurich-West on 13 March 2013 disrupted services at the main data centre of I-Web, a Swiss provider of e-government services. The centre is housed with a hosting partner in the district. According to Netzwoche, which cited the...
At about 10.37pm on 30 November 2013, a fire broke out at an unmanned substation in Majang-dong, Seoul, operated by the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO). Firefighters sprayed water on the blaze, but the flames grew rapidly and spread to the roof of...
A fire broke out at around 3.30am at the Ubungo substation operated by the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) in Dar es Salaam. The blaze was extinguished through a joint operation between the city fire brigade and a private security firm. Control...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On Thursday 4 July 2013, at about 10:30, grid power supply to the DC2 data centre of Online.net in Vitry-sur-Seine, France, was lost. The host attributed the outage to a major incident on the ERDF electricity distribution network. Uninterruptible power supply...
A Vestas V52-850kW wind turbine at the Loughderryduff wind farm, near Ardara and Glenties in County Donegal, collapsed at approximately 17:00 on 21 March 2013 during what Vestas described as very high winds, reported at around 25 m/s (56mph). Wreckage was...
On 25 February 2013 a fire broke out in the Liyuan Building, the headquarters of Chief Telecom in Taipei, which houses data centres. The Taipei City Fire Department judged that the fire started in the electrical and mechanical room on the second basement...
In August 2013 a battery-related fire damaged the energy centre of the Kwale data centre in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The energy centre is the part of the facility that houses the power equipment supporting the network, while the rest of the site, the white...
A diver was killed during construction of the 108MW Riffgat wind farm in the German North Sea, which is being built by EWE and Enova. According to reports, the diver was working on concrete bases designed to tie cables down to the seabed. The incident...
A fire at the Mulago power sub-station in Kampala, Uganda, destroyed the facility and cut power to the central business district, upscale residential areas, parts of Entebbe, Bombo and some areas of western Uganda. Witnesses said the fire started at about 9am...
A Vestas V52-850kW turbine at the Loughderryduff wind farm in County Donegal, Ireland, collapsed in March 2013 during high winds. An investigation by Vestas found that an error in the turbine's pitch system meant at least one blade failed to pitch out of the...
A blade snapped on an Enercon E126 7.5MW turbine at the Schneebergerhof wind farm in Rhineland-Palatinate, south-west Germany, in December, reported by Wind Power Monthly in May 2014 as having occurred the previous December. The broken blade was found...
A published headline reported that a wind turbine exploded and sparked a brush fire in Campo. The article text was not available, and no further details were reported.
In October 2013 a fire broke out in the nacelle of an onshore wind turbine in the Netherlands while a maintenance team was working inside it. Two maintenance workers died. The event is described in academic and legal commentary as the first recorded fatal...
In April 2013, the Metcalf transmission substation near San Jose, California, operated by Pacific Gas and Electric, was attacked by one or more people firing rifles at the site from outside the perimeter fence. Public reporting stated that around 17...
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