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Energy incidents in 2017
Incidents from 2017 across battery storage, solar, wind and grid infrastructure.
37 published entries. Newest first. Search and filter these in the register.
- Explosion at Blue Mountains substation cuts power to thousands twice in a week
- Worker dies after fall from turbine at Kilgallioch wind farm, Scotland
- Substation fire reported with outages, location not reported
- Wind turbine tower collapses at Steele Flats Wind Farm in Nebraska
- Transformer fire at Newark substation cuts power to thousands of AEP customers
- Explosion and fire at Linden substation cuts power to several suburbs
- Explosion reported before fire at Zeewolde wind farm in the Netherlands
- DTE Energy substation fire cuts power to 7,000 Detroit customers
- Man critically injured after copper theft attempt at Dunn Avenue substation, Nashville
- Ageing transformer explodes at Belmont substation on hottest day of the year, causing blackout
- Substation fire in Plymouth Michigan cuts power to thousands of DTE customers
- Wind turbine collapse at Ravne 1 wind farm near Pag, Croatia
- Worker fatally electrocuted atop turbine at Invenergy wind farm, Camp Springs, Texas
- Raccoon intrusion causes transformer explosion and mass power outage in Rio Rancho
- High voltage transformer explodes and catches fire in Winnersh
- Transformer explosion cuts power to Osprey Run community in Florida
- Worker dies after fall from turbine at Whitelee windfarm near Glasgow
- PSE&G transformer catches fire and falls in Bayonne, New Jersey
- Crane boom collapses while lifting turbine nacelle at Swedish wind farm
- Substation fire in San José cuts power to over 100,000 customers
- Wind turbine nacelle destroyed by fire in Hamina, Finland
- Fire destroys single turbine at Knabs Ridge wind farm near Harrogate
- Fire at PECO substation cuts power to over 30,000 Philadelphia customers
- Circuit breaker failure sparks fire at San Francisco substation, cutting power for hours
- Nacelle fire and blade loss at Endeavor I wind farm, Osceola County, Iowa
- Wind turbine collapses at wind farm near Windthorst, Texas
- Explosion at Beverley substation cuts power to about 160 properties
- Underground transformer explosion causes widespread power outage in Halifax
- Substation explosion and fire cuts power to 100,000 in San Jose suburb
- Transformer fire at LADWP substation causes major Los Angeles area outage
- Gamesa turbine destroyed by fire at JFE Engineering wind farm in Chinzei
- Transformer explosion at Entergy substation cuts power to Shell Convent Refinery, Louisiana
- Unauthorised access to El Paso substation causes explosion and outage
- Wind turbine head collapses at Mawson research station, Antarctica
- Lithium battery container fire at Shanxi energy storage power station
- Battery storage failure at Gochang wind integration BESS, South Korea
- Fatal fall during onshore wind turbine construction, inquiry findings on rescue arrangements and equipment
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