Incidents from 2022 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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On Christmas Day 2022 a fire broke out late in the evening at a Puget Sound Energy substation in Graham, Washington. Authorities were notified at 7.21 pm. The fire was the fourth attack on a power facility that day in south Pierce County. Earlier the same day...
On the afternoon of 12 December 2022, at about 14:20, the electrical cabin of a photovoltaic system inside the Cus facility in Via Santa Sofia, Catania, Italy, caught fire. The source reports a tall column of black smoke. Firefighters from the northern...
A voltage transformer at the Lynnwood primary substation in Tshwane, South Africa, caught fire on a Thursday night, causing the facility to go offline. Safety systems isolated the rest of the substation from further damage, and firefighters extinguished the...
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At about 10 a.m. on Sunday 4 December 2022, a transformer exploded in a neighbourhood at Plumas Street and St. Lawrence in Midtown, Reno, Nevada. Reno Fire responded to the incident. According to Reno Fire officials, a bird sat on a power line and caused it...
In the early hours of 23 December 2022, power went out in Cape Girardeau between midnight and 1:30 a.m. The Cape Girardeau Fire Department was dispatched around 1:35 a.m. to the intersection of N. Silver Springs Road and Independence Street for a transformer...
In the early hours of 3 December 2022 a fire broke out in the diesel engine room of the 10 MW Nova power station in Western Australia's Fraser Range. The station supplies IGO's Nova nickel-copper mine and includes solar PV and battery storage. The on-site...
A fire broke out at the substation serving the Tolko Industries Armstrong division. The incident knocked out power to both the plywood plant and the lumber mill. The cogeneration plant on site remained unaffected as it connects to a separate substation....
Firefighters responded to a fire at an electrical substation on Haverford and County Line roads in Delaware County on the afternoon of 28 December 2022. PECO said the incident left roughly 1,300 customers without power. Hours later, a spokesperson said power...
A mini-substation was reported to have caught fire on a grass verge under trees, directly outside houses, on Ouhoutoord road in Arboretum, Richards Bay. The fire was reported about one hour after load-shedding ended in the suburb. City of uMhlathuze Fire and...
On 3 December 2022, two Duke Energy electrical substations in Moore County, North Carolina, were damaged by gunfire. Multiple shots disabled equipment at sites about ten miles apart in West End and Carthage. Authorities said the attacks were targeted and...
A fire broke out at 4:28pm on 27 December 2022 in one of 24 energy storage system (ESS) buildings at the Yeongam solar power complex, operated by Daemyung Energy in Geumjeong-myeon (Geummyeon-myeon), Yeongam-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea. The site combines a...
A fire broke out in the battery room of the Damyang Solar Power Plant ESS, an energy storage system co-located with a solar power plant in Deokgok-ri, Mujeong-myeon, Damyang-gun, Jeollanam-do. The facility manager was alerted by an abnormal alarm from the ESS...
A fire broke out on Friday 4 November 2022 at a gas well substation on Johnston Road, near the Bentworth School District campus in Pennsylvania. The district closed that day. Students already transported to school were returned home, according to a...
A fire broke out on the morning of Saturday 19 November 2022 in one of three power transformers at a substation located below the Government Industrial Training Institute in Kohima. The fire service was called at about 6:43 am and reached the site within five...
On 8 November 2022, The Citizen reported an explosion at the Bryanston North substation (also referred to as Brynorth Substation) affecting Bryanston and parts of Riverclub in South Africa. City Power said the substation tripped earlier that day because of...
A fire at a PPL Electric Utilities substation in downtown Allentown, Pennsylvania cut power to approximately 30,000 customers early on a Monday morning. The company de-energised the substation shortly after 8 a.m. after a fire in electrical equipment. Many...
An electrical fault caused a fire at a substation at the M1 Watford Gap services in Northamptonshire on 24 November 2022. Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service was called shortly before 11am to reports of smoke and found the substation well alight. Power...
Fire crews were sent to a substation fire along Southeast 60th Avenue and Southeast Stark Street in Portland on the evening of 4 November 2022. Portland General Electric said the fire had left at least 3,000 customers without power. Nearby streets were closed...
An explosion and fire occurred at an electricity substation at the top of Hill Street, off Butterley Hill, in Ripley. Witnesses reported a bright flash. Derbyshire Police, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue and Western Power were called out at about 05:00. A cordon...
On the night of 21 November 2022, a fire broke out at an electricity sub-station on Knockinlaw Mount in Onthank, Kilmarnock. Police Scotland said officers came across the fire at about 10.40pm. Around 20 households were evacuated as a precaution, amid fears...
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