Incidents from 2014 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
10 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.
Three Suzlon S88 2.1MW turbines at the Amayo II plant, part of the 63MW Amayo wind complex owned by AEI Energy in Rivas municipality, Nicaragua, malfunctioned in high winds in the early hours of a Sunday morning, about an hour after a power blackout hit the...
On 5 November 2014 the trading systems of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) went down. SGX said the cause was a malfunction in the backup power systems at its primary data centre. The primary data centre is fed by two separate substations, each connected to its...
On 9 June 2014 an osprey building a nest on an NB Power transmission line shorted the line, and the Marysville Data Centre in Fredericton lost utility power. The automatic transfer switch, which should have connected the site to its diesel generator, did not...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
Internap experienced three outages in six days at two of its Manhattan data centres in May 2014, all caused by component failures in uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. On 16 May an output breaker on a UPS at 111 8th Avenue failed and registered a...
On Sunday 20 April 2014, a fire broke out at Samsung SDS's data centre in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, while a generator was running to support expansion works on the uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Reports described a fully involved building fire in the...
On 8 April 2014, Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service responded to a fire at a ground installation of solar panel units near Bodmin Jail in Bodmin. Two appliances and an officer attended. Crews found electrical boxes and solar panel units on fire. They first...
On the night of 8 March 2014, a transformer explosion at an electric substation along Owen Drive near Cumberland Road in Fayetteville cut power to Public Works Commission customers. Early reporting put the figure at about 31,500 customers for about an hour. A...
On 25 March 2014, a Duke Energy employee died after an accident at a Carmel substation near the intersection of 141st Street and Towne Road. Emergency medical technicians from the Carmel Fire Department took the employee to St Vincent Hospital in...
On 1 January 2014, at about 3pm, the National Park Service data centre in Denver, Colorado, lost utility power and went completely dark. According to a note posted on the agency's website, the outage was caused by an underground cable that had either suffered...
On 8 January 2014, a fire broke out at an electrical substation in Medway after a piece of electrical equipment failed. Power was knocked out to hundreds of residents. A live report said 6,000 customers had lost power and were on backup, and that supply had...
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