Incidents from 2021 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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On 22 December 2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported a loss of power within a single data centre in one Availability Zone, USE1-AZ4, of its US-EAST-1 region in the United States. Issues began around 7:30 a.m. ET and were still affecting services at 1 p.m....
On 29 December 2021 Eskom confirmed that an internal fault had resulted in a transformer explosion on Unit 8 of the Camden Power Station. The unit produces about 190 MW. The fire was contained and no injuries were reported. Eskom said an investigation was...
On the evening of 2 December 2021, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was alerted at 6.22pm to reports of smoke from an electricity substation in Townhill Road, Dunfermline. Four fire engines were sent. Crews found that the substation was not alight, made...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A fire at Taiwan Power Co's Wanlong substation in Taipei's Wenshan District cut power on 12 December 2021. The city government said Taipower reported a mechanical malfunction that led to the fire, and that the substation's 161 kV and 69 kV supply systems were...
The available report says a fire at a primary power substation in Taipei affected several Greater Taipei districts on the morning of 12 December 2021. State-run Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) said supply had returned to normal by Sunday afternoon. The substation...
A published report said a substation exploded in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, and that residents were left without power. The site, the operator, the cause, injuries and how long the outage lasted were not reported in the available text.
A fire broke out at 11:47 a.m. on Tuesday 14 December 2021 at SMUD’s Station A at 6th and H streets in Sacramento. The fire affected outdoor equipment and knocked out power to 1,300 customers. Thick black smoke was seen, and a camera showed an explosion...
On the night of 18 December 2021, video shared online was reported to show a main electrical substation in Glenmarie, Shah Alam, exploding during flash flooding, with a large fireball and further explosions. A separate social media report said the Glenmarie...
On Tuesday 9 November 2021, a fire broke out around midday on a rooftop solar panel at 10 Briggs Drive, the former Bostitch building off South County Trail in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The fire service was called at 12:16 p.m. The fire spread from the...
A fire at the Robertsham substation in the south of Johannesburg, South Africa, left at least 16 areas without electricity from Monday evening. The article is dated 20 October 2021, which places the outage on Monday 18 October 2021 by inference. City Power...
A transformer exploded in the area of Main Street and Old Town Road in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States, on the afternoon of Tuesday 5 October 2021, according to officials. First responders were sent to the area at around 1.30 pm. Arriving crews closed...
At around 10 am on Friday 8 October 2021, an underground transformer exploded near Aspen and Hillsdale in Visalia, California, United States, and knocked out power in the surrounding area. Visalia fire officials investigated. No one was injured, and fire...
On 15 October 2021, during a planned major component exchange at the Ormonde offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, about 10 km off Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom, a turbine hub, blades and a clamping tool fell into the sea. The work was being carried out...
A wind turbine at Tararua Wind Farm 3 on the Tararua Range caught fire on a Wednesday afternoon in October 2021. The fire was visible from Palmerston North and Feilding. Owner Mercury was alerted by on-site contractor and operator Vestas, who said nobody was...
In the early morning of 8 September 2021, a power outage hit the cloud data centre operated by SmileServ, a South Korean cloud service provider, at its IDC-Smile 1 Center, second server room. The company said harmonics stopped the static transfer switch (STS)...
A fire broke out at an electricity substation on George Richards Way in Broadheath, Altrincham, on the morning of 8 September 2021. Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said three appliances attended, and the fire was thought to have started shortly...
A fire broke out at the Glenwood substation of Upshur Rural Electric, about two miles south of Gilmer in Upshur County, Texas, United States. A report published on 1 September 2021 said it began early on a Wednesday morning. Thieves had cut through the fence...
Eskom said that, over the weekend before 13 September 2021, a fire incident at Kendal Power Station in South Africa damaged the generator transformer on Unit 1. Units 2 and 3 were shut down following that damage. Eskom said Units 2 and 3 would return to...
Batteries connected to solar panels overheated and ignited inside a domestic double garage in South Woodham Ferrers. The fire spread throughout the garage. Firefighters were called at 12.35pm and stopped it spreading to nearby homes. Crews fully extinguished...
On 3 September 2021, Recharge reported a blade failure that damaged a 5.3MW GE Vernova onshore turbine at Björkvattnet in northern Sweden. The manufacturer was analysing the root cause. Injuries, the extent of damage beyond the blade, and whether the turbine...
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