Incidents from 2017 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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A wind turbine was reported to have caught fire on the morning of 26 December 2017 about 10 miles north and 2 miles east of Woodward, Oklahoma. The fire was also reported to have started a grass fire nearby. Firefighters from several agencies, including the...
An electrical fire at a substation in North Waco was reported to have left about 6,000 residents, street lights and businesses without power for about 40 minutes on a Thursday afternoon in December 2017. Oncor employees were reported working at the substation...
A local newspaper serving Waco, Texas reported in late December 2017 that a fire at an electrical substation left thousands of customers briefly without power. Only the headline and summary were available, so the substation's name and exact location, the...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A transformer at a substation on Libra and Iris Roads in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, exploded after a raccoon climbed into it, according to the local utility PNM. The explosion caused a power outage affecting 9,638 customers in an area bounded by Enchanted Hills...
On the evening of 18 December 2017, a PSEG worker was called to Wyandanch Avenue in East Islip, New York, to respond to a power outage. While the worker was near the transformer it exploded, and the worker was injured and taken to a local hospital. A PSEG...
A transformer exploded at the West 41st Street substation in Cleveland, Ohio, at about 5:30pm on a Tuesday evening, triggering a widespread outage that left about 40,000 Cleveland residents without electricity during extremely cold temperatures. The...
On 21 December 2017 a fire was reported at a lithium battery energy storage power station of a power plant in Shanxi, China, and was reported to have burned the No. 2 energy storage container. The same station was reported to have had a fire in a group of...
On 9 November 2017 at about 07:04, a fault on the external electricity network cut both 20kV supply cables to the OVH Strasbourg (SBG) site in France. The two cables shared a single circuit breaker, so both feeds were lost. The site's high-voltage backup...
On Tuesday 21 November 2017 a faulty battery in the IT room of a health centre in Cairns, Queensland, set off a small fire. Emergency services were called at around 10am. The fire is believed to have been caused by a short circuit in a battery cabinet in the...
On 16 November 2017, a transformer exploded and caught fire near FM 1488 and Interstate 45 in Conroe, Texas, shortly after 2:30 p.m. Conroe and The Woodlands Fire Departments were sent to the fire. Entergy Texas initially reported about 1,500 customers...
Early on Wednesday 8 November 2017, a transformer caught fire in a switchyard serving the McGuire Nuclear Station in Huntersville, North Carolina. Reports differ on its position: the Huntersville Fire Department described it as across the street from the...
On a Tuesday in late November 2017, two rooftop solar panels started a fire at The Covenant at Murray Mansion, a wedding and event venue at 2219 Washington Ave in Racine. A published photograph showed the damaged panels on the roof, with a fire truck at the...
On 30 November 2017, three employees were injured while repairing a defect at a substation in Shkodra. A short report said there was an explosion of a vehicle that was being repaired, and that the electricians received body burns. They were taken towards...
Part of a wind turbine at Mawson research station in Antarctica, operated by the Australian Antarctic Division, collapsed overnight. The head of the turbine, an Enercon E30 unit measuring 30 metres in height, fell to the ground at approximately 9pm local...
A lithium-ion battery energy storage system at Drogenbos, Belgium, is recorded as having failed on 11 November 2017. The system is listed at 6 MW and as used for frequency regulation. About 1 per cent of installed capacity is recorded as damaged. The failure...
Firefighters were called to the Lisahally Biomass Power Plant near Derry Port at about 19:30 on a Sunday evening after reports of a ruptured steam pipe. The source describes the event as an explosion at the plant. A command team, four pumps and an aerial unit...
On Monday 30 October 2017, at around 2 p.m. local time, a large transformer at a Nashville Electric Service (NES) substation blew and caught fire in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The substation sat just off Main Street near Interstate 24, next to a car park...
On 3 October 2017, at about 6:45 p.m., a fire alarm test at a data centre used only for Correctional Service Canada systems went wrong and power to the facility was cut for three hours. The cut was caused by human error by a third party. Shared Services...
On 16 October 2017 the primary transformer at the Gwallon Lane electricity substation in Marazion, Cornwall, England, developed a fault and caught fire. Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service sent two appliances from Penzance and one each from St Just and Hayle at...
A fire occurred in the roof space of a bungalow measuring 12 by 20 metres in Crowan. The incident also involved solar panels on the property. Fire and rescue crews attended with multiple appliances, breathing apparatus and jets supplied from hydrants. The...
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