Incidents from 2015 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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On the afternoon of 17 November 2015, the Sovereign House data centre in London Docklands, operated by TelecityGroup, lost utility power at around 14:00. The facility appears to have failed to switch over to its backup generators. Power was restored but then...
A worker was killed in an explosion while handling explosives at the Boulder Creek Hydroelectric project, about 50 kilometres north of Pemberton, Canada. A second person was seriously injured and taken to a hospital in the Lower Mainland. WorkSafeBC and the...
On 21 November 2015, one fire appliance from Newquay Community Fire Station attended a report of a photovoltaic solar panel that had blown off the roof of a bungalow in Godolphin Way, Newquay, onto a parked vehicle. Firefighters made the scene safe by...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On 30 October 2015, fire crews were called just before 1 p.m. to a roof fire at 518 Tremont St. in Boston. Several solar panels on the building caught fire. Crews extinguished the blaze a short time after arrival. Portions of the panels dropped during the...
A Nordex Gamma generation wind turbine caught fire at the 110MW Midtfjellet wind farm in mid-west Norway on 31 October 2015. The fire caused no injuries but triggered a shutdown of the entire plant, which consists of 44 turbines of the N90 and N100 types....
On Thursday 20 August 2015, at about 10:30, the power supply to the Neuenheimer Feld campus of Heidelberg University was interrupted for about one and a half minutes. The diesel emergency generators started within seconds, as planned. However, fluctuations in...
On 26 August 2015, during work to fit solar panels on the roof of a dairy unit at Kemble Farm, part of the Bathurst Estate at Kemble, a worker fell through a skylight about 7.8 metres onto a concrete floor. He and a colleague had gone onto the roof to take...
An explosion and fire occurred in the basement of 811 Wilshire Boulevard, a commercial and office building in downtown Los Angeles, at about 10:10 pm on Thursday 20 August 2015. Firefighters, reported as 160 or 161 depending on the source, brought the fire...
At 09:19 PDT on 13 August 2015, four successive lightning strikes hit the local utilities grid supplying Google's European data centre in St. Ghislain, Belgium, within the europe-west1-b zone. The strikes caused a brief loss of power to storage systems...
During severe thunderstorms on the evening of 2 August 2015, one of 63 wind turbines at NextEra Energy's Goshen Wind Project on Kirkton Road in the Grand Bend area of Ontario had a blade snap off. Environment Canada recorded a wind gust of 110 km/h at Grand...
On Monday 6 July 2015 a fire closed Colt's Milan Lancetti Data Centre in Milan, Italy, taking the company's cloud services offline for several hours. Colt said it had experienced utility power supply outages at the site, that the vast majority of customer...
A fire broke out shortly before 6am on 24 June 2015 on the fourth floor of Telephone House, a BT building on May Street in Belfast city centre. BT said the fire disrupted the electricity supply to the building, affecting a number of customers in its data...
On 9 June 2015, appliances from Bodmin and St Austell attended a fire at a solar farm transformer unit on Copshorn Road, Bodmin. The unit was a shipping container 6.5 metres long and was well alight on arrival. Western Power engineers and a representative of...
On 26 May 2015 a fire broke out on the roof of a 1.3 million square foot plant in Mesa, Arizona, which Apple had acquired from GT Advanced and was converting into a data centre. Apple bought the plant in 2013 to make sapphire glass, and announced in February...
On the evening of 24 May 2015 a wind turbine caught fire at the Iberdrola Renewables Streator Cayuga Ridge South Wind Power Project near Emington in Livingston County, Illinois. Local residents reported seeing the turbine burning and travelled to the site to...
Fire and rescue crews responded to a fire in a transformer unit building measuring 5 by 3 metres on a solar panel farm in Treviscoe, St Dennis, United Kingdom. The alarm was raised by site staff. Crews adopted a defensive stance using carbon dioxide and dry...
On 4 January 2015, firefighters from Thornwood, assisted by crews from Hawthorne, Valhalla, Pleasantville, Chappaqua and Yonkers, worked to contain a fire at a Con Edison substation on Commerce Street in Thornwood, New York. The fire was recorded in a...
Around 130 birds caught fire mid-air while entering an area of concentrated solar energy at the 110-megawatt solar project near Tonopah, Nevada. The birds, described as streamers due to smoke trails, were observed during tests that began on 14 January....
A 100 metre high wind turbine at Screggagh wind farm in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland, collapsed on 2 January 2015 after almost four years of uninterrupted operation. The turbine, one of eight Nordex N80 2500kW machines, buckled and hit the ground, scattering...
Around 03:25 a large free-standing transformer at the TenneT substation near Ludwigsau-Mecklar in Kreis Hersfeld-Rotenburg caught fire, with flames visible from a distance. The site lies directly beside the B27 federal road. Volunteer fire brigades from...
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