Incidents from 2018 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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On the evening of 26 December 2018, an electrical transformer exploded on Santa Clara Street near Ocie Way in Hayward, California. A PG&E employee had attended alone a voltage problem reported at about 9 p.m. Around 10.15 p.m. the transformer exploded,...
A transformer exploded at the Çorum Organised Industrial Zone (OSB) in Turkey, after which a fire started in the oil tanks supporting the transformer. Firefighters from the OSB Directorate and Çorum Municipality responded, and the fire, which lasted about two...
A transformer exploded at a Con Edison electrical facility in Astoria, Queens, New York City, on the evening of 27 December 2018. The explosion produced an intense flash of blue light that lit up the sky over parts of the city, visible from Manhattan and...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On 17 December 2018, a fire broke out at a battery energy storage system (ESS) installation in Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. The system, approximately one year old, used nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) lithium-ion cells manufactured by LG...
In December 2018, a fire broke out during the evening at a battery energy storage system integrated with a solar generation facility in Samcheok, Gangwon Province, South Korea. The fire destroyed a large number of lithium-ion battery units and damaged part of...
On the night of 27 December 2018, an electrical fault occurred on 138,000 volt equipment at the Astoria transmission substation in Astoria, Queens, New York City, operated and owned by Consolidated Edison. The fault developed into a sustained arc flash,...
On the morning of Wednesday 21 November 2018, a Pacific Gas and Electric transformer reportedly blew underground near the post office in Soquel, California, before 10 a.m. Local outlet KION reported the event, and Patch reported that the malfunctioning of a...
On the morning of Saturday 17 November 2018, residents in parts of Signal Hill, Cal Heights and Bixby Knolls, California, lost power from about 7:45 a.m. The outage was caused by an isolated transformer fire in the Southern California Edison yard at the...
A wind turbine blade failed early on a Wednesday morning at the Big Turtle Wind Farm in Bloomfield Township, west of Port Hope, Huron County. A report dated 29 November 2018 said turbine 14, off Minden Road and north of Dobson Road, was affected. Company...
Southern California Edison told state regulators that a circuit at the Chatsworth Substation relayed at 2:22 p.m. on Thursday, switching the circuit off after a sensor detected a disturbance. The utility linked this to an outage two minutes before the Woolsey...
EnergyWatch reported that a monopile wind turbine foundation weighing 800 tons, intended for the Hornsea 1 offshore wind farm, crashed down onto the quay at the Port of Rostock. The report is a short lead only. It does not say when the crash happened, how the...
On the morning of 1 November 2018, a fire broke out at a substation in the 10000 block of Genesee Road, Genesee Township, Michigan. A Consumers Energy spokesperson said the substation is owned by ITC Holdings. ITC Holdings confirmed that the Thetford...
A wind turbine nacelle caught fire at the Windy Hill wind farm near Ravenshoe, Queensland. Queensland Fire and Emergency Services crews attended from around 3pm and worked to contain the blaze, remaining on site to prevent it spreading into surrounding...
A transformer exploded on a Saturday morning near P.S.C. Metals on West 19th Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee, igniting a fire. Flames from the explosion spread up the exterior wall of the P.S.C. Metals building and extended inside the structure. Firefighters...
On the evening of 30 November 2018, a transformer explosion left customers without power in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania. At one point more than 600 customers were without electricity. Many of the outages were reported along Verona Road. Duquesne Light said crews...
At around 3:55pm on 12 November 2018, a fire of unknown cause broke out at a solar power facility in Jangsu-myeon, Yeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. The fire occurred in a 33 square metre sandwich panel building housing an energy storage system...
At around 4:03pm on 12 November 2018, a fire broke out at a solar power facility in Mokcheon-eup, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan-si, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. The fire involved the site's energy storage room and destroyed 187 lithium-ion battery units....
A fire broke out at a solar power generation facility with co-located battery energy storage in Mungyeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, less than one year after the storage system was installed. The fire was severe enough to knock the iron door off its...
In 2018 a fire broke out in the battery energy storage room of a solar power generation facility in Wicheon-myeon, Geochang County, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. The fire burned through a single storey prefabricated sandwich panel structure housing...
At about 7am on Tuesday 16 October 2018, businesses near the Elsburg Substation on Ostend Road, Germiston, heard a loud bang, and several suburbs were plunged into darkness. The Germiston City News reported that the outage was caused by an explosion and a...
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