Incidents from 2020 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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Firefighters and police were called to Wrightson Avenue, Bar Beach, just off Memorial Drive, shortly before 9am on Wednesday 30 December 2020 after reports of a fire involving solar panels. Crews extinguished the blaze but remained on scene. Traffic was...
A fire broke out at an electrical substation off Bury New Road in Broughton, Salford, at about 4.45pm on 29 December 2020. More than 1,600 properties lost power. Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service sent fire engines from Broughton and Agecroft, and...
A fire broke out at about 11:12 pm on 15 December 2020 in the storage battery room on basement level 3 of KT's Gangnam branch internet data centre in Seoul. The room held lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries. According to a fire investigation report by the...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On Thursday 17 December 2020 there was a transformer incident at Unit 3 of AGL's Liddell Power Station in New South Wales. A worker was seriously injured and was receiving medical attention. The unit was taken out of service. AGL said an investigation was...
Recharge reported on 5 January 2021 that a worker fell to death inside a wind turbine tower at an unidentified project near Palm Springs, California. The worker was employed by Site Constructors Inc. The Riverside County Fire Department gave a location for...
A GE turbine caught fire at the 225MW Roundhouse wind farm in Wyoming, United States. The project was commissioned in June 2020 and uses GE2.3-116 and GE2.5-127 turbines. It was not reported which model caught fire. Volunteers from Laramie County Fire...
During acceptance testing of a newly installed hybrid battery and supercapacitor storage unit at the Perles-et-Castelet RTE transformer substation in Perles-et-Castelet, Ariège, France, operated and owned by RTE, with the storage system supplied by Ingeteam...
On 21 November 2020, HDFC Bank's internet banking and payment system suffered an outage. The bank said in a regulatory filing that the outage was caused by a power failure in its primary data centre, and that internet banking and payment services were...
On Sunday 22 November 2020 a fire tore across four homes in Wellow Close, Leigh Park. Crews from Portchester, Havant, Southsea and Emsworth fire stations spent more than four hours tackling the blaze. In January 2021 Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said the...
On 3 November 2020 a fire hit the most important substation in the state of Amapá, Brazil, in the North Zone of Macapá. The fire was in the TR1 transformer and also damaged the neighbouring TR2 transformer, which could not then serve part of the load. The...
Enemalta reported that an electricity outage in Malta was caused by a failure of the interconnector on the Sicily side. The Malta grid is linked to the European grid through Sicily. The extent of the outage, its duration, the number of customers affected and...
In the early hours of Wednesday 14 October 2020 the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) attended a fire at an NIE substation and water pump station on Quay Lane, Enniskillen. The fire was reported at 1.06am. Three appliances attended, two from...
A 54 year old contractor working inside the hub of a wind turbine near Monticello, Indiana suffered a medical emergency while performing work on equipment. The turbine, roughly 340 to 350 feet tall, is owned by EDP Renewables, and the contractor worked for...
Municipal firefighters in Ullum, San Juan province, Argentina, were called on a Sunday morning by police headquarters to attend a fire at the Ullum photovoltaic park, owned by Argentinian energy company Genneia SA. On arrival, firefighters found that a number...
MidAmerican Energy halted 46 turbines at its Beaver Creek wind farm in Greene County, Iowa, on 15 October 2020 after a turbine blade broke away and fell into a harvested field. This was the fourth blade failure the utility experienced since October 2019, all...
The Fergus fire station attended a fire at a Hydro One substation on Wellington Road 18, near the Wellington County OPP station at Aboyne, Ontario, after a call at 3.15am on 11 September 2020. Crews were on scene by 3.25am. The fire was contained within the...
The Daily Echo reported on 15 September 2020 that fire crews tackled a small fire in an electricity sub-station at Hamble Lane, Hamble (Hamble-Le-Rice), Hampshire. Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called shortly after noon, with five...
On 3 September 2020, two transformers caught fire in the area of Scenic and Grant Drive, next to a PUD substation in south Everett, Washington. A grass fire was also reported just north of Scenic Drive on Beverly Boulevard, and downed lines were reported to...
Qatar's Ministry of Interior is reported to have said that slight smoke was detected at a substation attached to the Mall of Qatar, and that the situation was brought under control. Only a headline and short summary are available, so the cause, any injuries,...
A subcontractor performing annual maintenance and painting work at an electric substation in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, fell about 15 feet from a ladder and, according to the city fire department, grabbed an electrical service line and was shocked. The substation...
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