Incidents from 2023 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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A fire broke out in the early hours of 29 December, reported as 2023 by inference from the publication date, next to one of the turbines at the Viking Wind Farm on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The 443MW onshore project, which was in development and under...
On Wednesday 13 December 2023, emergency services were called to a reported explosion at an electricity substation in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester. Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said three fire engines from Stalybridge, Ashton-under-Lyne and...
A fault in a Con Edison transmission line at the Farragut Substation on John Street near the Brooklyn waterfront caused a brief power outage across New York City, Long Island and parts of New Jersey on 14 December 2023. Witnesses reported an explosion and...
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In the early hours of Saturday 2 December 2023, a blaze extensively damaged the Observatory Substation in Observatory, Johannesburg, South Africa. City Power said equipment inside the control room was damaged. The fire left several suburbs east of...
A high-voltage transformer failure occurred at Vinegar Hill substation in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn, United States. The failure caused a flash and smoke at the facility around midnight. The resulting outage lasted less than one-tenth of one second and affected...
On 20 December 2023, a transformer fire at a Con Edison substation in the Dongan Hills section of Staten Island left roughly 3,700 customers without power. The FDNY responded to reports of smoke. About 60 firefighters and EMS personnel attended. No injuries...
A fire at a PPL substation in Allentown was reported to have lit up the evening sky. The published headline included a description of a big ball of electricity in the air. The report is dated 28 December 2023. Cause, damage, injuries, any effect on supply,...
On 9 December 2023, a tornado struck the North Substation on East Campbell Road in Madison, Tennessee. A high-voltage circuit breaker took a direct hit, and a large explosion was captured on cameras. Nashville Electric Service described the site as a...
Following maintenance work at a National Grid substation located off the B3284 between Truro and Shortlanesend, Cornwall, an incident occurred after the network had been restored to normal working. A piece of plant failed, producing a bright flash that was...
A fire broke out in the battery energy storage system at the Proxy Delhaize supermarket in Braives, Belgium, on the morning of 26 or 27 December 2023. The store had installed eight lithium ion battery units with a combined capacity of 144 kWh outside the...
On Christmas Day 2023, a fire was reported in a mobile battery energy storage container, manufactured by Dens, at the Automotive Campus in Helmond, Netherlands. On arrival, fire crews found flames and flaring from lithium-ion battery cells consistent with...
A battery cabinet installed outside the Lanyu Power Plant on Lanyu (Orchid Island), Taitung County, Taiwan, operated by Taipower, caught fire during testing of a newly added energy storage system. The fire is suspected to have been caused by a short circuit...
A substation at Rosebank in Johannesburg, South Africa, caught fire at around 21:00 on 17 November 2023. City Power was responding to an outage at the site when the fire broke out. The reported result was a total loss of power to customers in Rosebank, Hyde...
On 2 November 2023 Portland General Electric (PGE) had an unplanned maintenance event that shut down one of the utility feeds into the Flexential PDX04 data centre near Hillsboro, Oregon. Flexential started its generators to supplement the lost feed and kept...
On Thursday 9 November 2023, a fire broke out at a substation in the area of 16th and Lehman Streets in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The fire caused a power outage, and Northwest Elementary School sent about 600 students home in the morning, according to the...
A fire broke out at the KwaThema substation in the early hours of 5 November 2023. City of Ekurhuleni disaster and emergency services attended and extinguished the fire. The substation building and switchgear panels were damaged. Nearby residents were moved...
On 1 November 2023 a Kenya Power transformer exploded at the junction of Muratina and Waudo streets in Eastleigh, Nairobi. The blast produced sparks, and witnesses described darkness and smoke afterwards. Residents, boda boda riders and pedestrians nearby...
A transformer exploded overnight in the 1200 block of Paxton Street in Harrisburg, cutting power to part of Dauphin County, including UPMC Harrisburg Hospital. The hospital ran on a generator. A county spokesperson said a pickup truck hit a pole at about...
Crews responded to a fire at a power station off North OR-99 on Lynn Street in northwest Medford after a transformer exploded. Pacific Power assisted with the transformer. The Medford Fire Department also assisted and blocked traffic on Lynn Street. Crews...
An explosion and a small fire were reported at a local electric substation in Lytkarino, near Moscow, on the night of 22-23 November 2023. Residents reported a bright flash at about 01:00, after which power was lost across the district. Early reports said...
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