Incidents from 2019 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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On Sunday 1 December 2019, around 10:30 pm, the Colusa Fire Department was called to a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. substation on Main Street in downtown Colusa, California, after heavy smoke was seen. The smoke turned into flame, and a plume of burning oil...
An Amtrak worker was electrocuted and killed while working at a substation in The Bronx, New York, on Thursday 5 December 2019, at about 11 a.m. The site, at White Plains Road and Unionport Road in Parkchester, is where Con Edison and Amtrak both have...
On Wednesday 11 December 2019 the West Polk County Volunteer Fire and Rescue spent the day fighting a fire at the Ocoee substation in Polk County. Firefighters said the fire was stubborn to put out because of the transformer's design. They said someone had...
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On 3 December 2019, a power transformer exploded in the Normal Heights area of San Diego, in the 330 block of El Cajon Boulevard, and sparked a small fire. San Diego Fire-Rescue said the flames did not spread to nearby buildings. According to the SDG&E outage...
A fire broke out at the Kwagga substation in Pretoria West, in the Tshwane area of South Africa, in the early hours of 10 December 2019. An emergency services spokesperson was reported as attributing the fire to an oil leak. Firefighters were dispatched at...
A fire was reported at the Kwagga substation in Tshwane, South Africa, in December 2019. The only available source is a headline and short feed summary from a South African news outlet. The cause, the extent of any damage, whether anyone was injured, and any...
A transformer fire at a substation near Imperial Highway and Associated Road in Brea, California, caused a power outage affecting approximately 15,000 people across Placentia, Fullerton and Brea, including the Brea Mall and the Brea Civic Center. Brea Fire...
An explosion occurred at the Brynorth substation in Johannesburg, South Africa, when a feederboard blew up, according to City Power. The incident affected power supply to Bryanston, Morningside, Khanyisa, River Club, Douglasdale and surrounding areas,...
On the evening of 12 November 2019, a fire broke out at the top of the central tower of the Cerro Dominador concentrated solar thermal plant in Antofagasta, northern Chile. The operator announced the fire on its social media account. The source reports that...
A fire was reported at the Kettering substation on East Dorothy Lane, just west of Wilmington Pike, at around 7:40 a.m. on Monday 4 November 2019, according to a WHIO TV photo gallery. The source is captions only. It does not report the extent of any damage,...
On 23 November 2019, at about 06:40, systems at the Qic Data Center in Fukuoka, Japan, went down. The data centre is run by QTnet, a Kyushu Electric Power Group company. The site was undergoing renewal of its power equipment. An overcurrent relay in the...
On Monday 25 November 2019, a power failure occurred at 13:58 at a data centre operated by NTT Communications in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The failure happened during switchover work on the data centre's power equipment. An excessive current was generated, and...
A squirrel entered a DP&L substation on East Dorothy Lane, west of Wilmington Pike in Kettering, Ohio, on Monday 4 November 2019. The animal tripped a switchgear, which caused a fire first reported at about 7:40 a.m. Firefighters reported the fire under...
The electrical substation on Church Street in Tongaat was reported ablaze at about 5pm on 14 November 2019, according to Netcare 911. The local Community Emergency Response Team contacted the Tongaat Fire Department, which controlled the fire and put it out....
On 1 November 2019, a day of high winds, a fire broke out at a Green Mountain Power substation just south of the Veterans' Bridge on Putney Road (Route 5) in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States. Brattleboro firefighters were called at 10:25 a.m. and found a...
A transformer explosion linked to a Thanksgiving Day outage on Ferguson Drive in Montebello shook homes and, residents said, sent a power surge through electrical lines. Families in eight households said they remained without power, with reports of damaged...
At about 12.45 on 18 October 2019, an electrical explosion occurred in a substation at the Lanes shopping centre in Carlisle. Alarms were triggered and staff and shoppers were evacuated onto Scotch Street. Witnesses reported a loud bang and smoke from the...
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) shut down its 110 kV substation at Kaloor in Kochi after heavy rain and flooding on the morning of Monday 21 October 2019. Around 10 acres of the substation site, opposite Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium, were...
A squirrel contacted a power line on a ridge just east of Valleyview Drive in Pocatello, causing the line to fall to the ground. The incident occurred around 12:45 p.m. The fallen line ignited a brush fire that scorched about a quarter-acre of land behind...
Pacific Gas and Electric told state regulators that a 230,000 volt transmission line malfunctioned near Kincade Road and Burned Mountain Road in Geyserville, Sonoma County, at about 9:20 p.m. The first calls reporting a major fire followed about seven minutes...
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