Incidents from 2016 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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At about 6am on Monday 14 November 2016, internet connectivity was affected for a number of broadband ISPs after a fault developed in one of the Power Distribution Units (PDUs) at Telehouse North, a major data centre in London. The faulty unit produced smoke,...
On 10 September 2016, a high voltage fault in the cable end box of the output circuit breaker for one on-site diesel rotary uninterruptible power supply at the Global Switch 2 data centre in London interrupted power for 222 milliseconds. All customers lost...
On 11 September 2016, a fire broke out in a transformer yard next to Talen Energy's Martin's Creek Power Plant in Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania. Local firefighters put the fire out after about three hours. The plant itself was not damaged and no plant...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On 20 September 2016, staff were evacuated from The Chess Building in Watford Business Park after a strong smell of burning was reported from one of the computer suites and the fire alarm sounded. Two crews from Watford attended at about 1pm and extinguished...
A weak EF-1 tornado with winds up to 90 mph struck Camp Ripley near Little Falls, Minnesota, on 7 September 2016. The storm blew roofs off barracks buildings and drove debris into a 10 MW solar array that was nearing completion. A quarter of the 97 rows of...
In late August 2016 a power outage at the Solihull data centre of software provider SSP disrupted its Pure Broking insurance platform. Brokers and underwriters in the UK and New Zealand lost access to emails, client records and transaction functions. SSP said...
On 30 August 2016, an electrical fault on the 2B main bank transformer at Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Unit 2 caused the main turbine to trip. The reactor also tripped by design. The fault led to an oil fire in an exterior switchyard transformer,...
On Monday 8 August 2016, an electrical component failed at Delta Air Lines' Atlanta headquarters, Georgia, and the transformer supplying power to the airline's data centre shut down. The data centre moved to backup power, but not all servers were connected to...
On 30 August 2016, Apple briefly evacuated employees from a building at its Austin, Texas campus after a fire on the roof. Local station KXAN reported that solar panels on offices in the 5500 block of West Parmer Lane were the cause. The Austin Fire...
An 80-metre wind turbine at the Point Tupper Wind Farm in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, operated by Renewable Energy Services, collapsed on 17 August 2016 after its blades struck the tower, bending it before it buckled at the midpoint and fell to the ground. The...
On 10 August 2016, a fire broke out in the assembly area of S&C Electric Company's Franklin, Wisconsin facility. The fire started in a utility-scale energy storage system that was still in a partially assembled state, with lithium-ion batteries present but...
On the morning of 20 July 2016, a power outage occurred at the 8/9 Harbour Exchange facility in London, also known as LD8, a former Telecity site now owned by Equinix. Equinix said the outage was caused by a problem with one of the facility's uninterruptible...
On 21 July 2016, a power failure at Telehouse North, a data centre in London's Docklands, disrupted internet services for BT and Plusnet customers across the UK. BT said the problem was a substantial power failure at one of its internet connection partners in...
On 4 June 2016 at 10:25 PM PDT (5 June Sydney time), a utility provider suffered a loss of power at a regional substation during severe weather, cutting utility power to multiple Amazon Web Services facilities in the Sydney Region. The event was an unusually...
A substation in Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, China, was reported to have exploded at about 00:25 on 18 June 2016 after a breakdown, and to have caught fire. The fire was reported extinguished in about one hour. A sudden blackout was reported to have affected...
On 10 May 2016, a circuit breaker controlling power into Salesforce's data centre in Washington, D.C. failed. Multiple redundant power systems did not engage, causing power failures at the computer system level. Customers on the NA14 instance were unable to...
According to a report from Haber 7 relaying Anadolu Agency, an explosion occurred at the Lara Trafo Merkezi (Lara transformer substation) in Aksu district, Antalya, Türkiye, during maintenance work. The substation belongs to Türkiye Elektrik İletim AŞ...
A fire broke out at about 5.20pm on 22 March 2016 in the electrical transformer part of a substation in Grantham, Lincolnshire, according to the Daily Star. Homes nearby were evacuated as a precaution. About 13,310 properties were initially affected by a...
Solar panels on the roof of a home on Creditview Road in Mississauga caught fire on the afternoon of 9 March 2016, according to Mississauga fire officials. The fire broke out around 1:45 p.m. and was under control by about 2:30 p.m. No injuries were reported.
A fire broke out at the Adani Group solar power plant in Kamuthi, damaging four solar panels, police said. The plant is run by Adani Green Energy (Tamilnadu). The cause, the time of the fire, and whether anyone was hurt were not reported.
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