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Energy incidents in 2020
Incidents from 2020 across battery storage, solar, wind and grid infrastructure.
32 published entries. Newest first. Search and filter these in the register.
- Western Power substation fire near Longport cuts power to over 120 homes
- Transformer vault fire at PSEG Long Island substation in Bridgehampton
- Wind turbine catches fire near Taft and Portland, Texas
- Crew transfer vessel collides with turbine at Borkum Riffgrund 1, injuring three
- Explosion and fire at Burbank Water and Power substation near Empire Center
- Wind turbine destroyed by fire, later demolished in Portland, Texas
- Interconnector fault reported to have caused power outage in Malta
- Flashover at Haywards substation cuts power to 94,000 Wellington homes
- Dropfall incident pauses foundation work at Changhua offshore wind farm
- Dropfall incident during foundation installation at Changhua offshore wind project
- Transformer fire reported at Greater Noida power substation, blackouts in the area
- Transformer fire shuts Noida substation, third such BHEL failure
- Fire at NPCL 500MVA substation in Noida Sector 148, Greater Noida
- Transformer fire at Noida Power substation causes area blackouts
- Vestas V150 turbine collapses at Aldermyrberget wind farm in Sweden
- Wind turbine destroyed by fire at Vietnamese wind farm
- Substation fire in Blackpool cuts power to thousands of customers
- Five workers injured in installation vessel accident at Triton Knoll wind farm
- Snake causes fire and blackout at South Carolina electricity substation
- Fire at Cornwall electricity substation cuts power to hundreds of homes
- Trench collapse at Skookumchuck wind project near Olympia kills rescuer, injures colleague
- Mini-substation on 16th Avenue, Joe Nhlanhla, Alexandra explodes amid overload
- Arson fire at Paisley substation cuts power to homes and a care home
- Squirrel intrusion sparks small fire and outage at Manhattan Kansas substation
- Worker injured after ladder fall and electrical shock at Cuyahoga Falls substation
- Contractor rescued after medical emergency atop Indiana wind turbine
- Fire breaks out in central inverters at Ullum solar park in Argentina
- Vestas investigates fourth blade failure at Iowa wind farm since 2019
- Vestas blade fails at Timber Road IV wind farm in Ohio
- Explosion and prolonged fire at Orsted battery storage site in Liverpool
- Battery storage container destroyed by fire during commissioning at Perles-et-Castelet substation
- Fire in a battery container at a grid-connected storage site, UK
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