Register / 2024
Energy incidents in 2024
Incidents from 2024 across battery storage, solar, wind and grid infrastructure.
49 published entries. Newest first. Search and filter these in the register.
- Accidental fire reported at solar farm in Chesapeake, Virginia
- Substation fire cuts power to thousands in Eustis, Florida
- E3/DC home battery storage system with LG module catches fire in Germany
- Busbar fault at Insukamini substation triggers nationwide blackout in Zimbabwe
- Wind turbine collapses and catches fire at Colorado wind farm
- Turbine destroyed by fire at Victorian wind farm near Portland
- NSL interconnector trip causes GB grid frequency dip, batteries respond
- Worker killed by turbine blade at Golden Plains Wind Farm, Rokewood, Victoria
- Worker killed by falling turbine blade at Golden Plains wind farm in Australia
- Fire at Yeonggwang solar and battery storage site in South Korea, no injuries
- Battery storage fire at Intilion system near Medessen, Priestewitz, Germany, injures worker
- Battery storage fire at farm building in Zuidland, Netherlands
- Company fined after worker fatality at Sussex wind farm construction site
- Fatal turbine elevator entrapment at Markbygden wind complex, Sweden
- Construction worker killed by runaway trailer at Neweg Energy Project, New Brunswick
- Battery storage failure at Edwards Sanborn E2 in Kern County, California
- Battery storage fire and explosion injures four firefighters at Japanese solar site
- Explosion and multi-day fire at SIN11 Digital Loyang 1 data centre, Singapore
- Battery storage fire triggers evacuation near Santa Ana industrial site
- Battery storage fire in electrical room at SeAH Besteel Gunsan Plant, South Korea
- Battery storage container fire at commercial site in Brantford, Ontario
- Battery fire at Table Mountain Aerial Cableway halts cable car service in Cape Town
- Battery fire at solar-plus-storage site in Hongnong-eup, Yeonggwang-gun destroys modules
- Tracker motor fault exposed solar modules during hailstorm in Fort Bend County, Texas
- Hurricane causes grid damage across Florida, Georgia, Carolinas, Tennessee, Virginia
- Explosion at ageing Brooklyn substation strands New York City Subway riders
- Damage to Balticconnector pipeline and Baltic Sea subsea cables, 2023-2024
- Transformer explosion and fire at Duke Energy substation in Maineville, Ohio
- Fatal fall from turbine nacelle during onshore wind maintenance, UK
- Fatality during routine maintenance at an onshore wind turbine, Germany
- Onshore wind blade detachment in Denmark, reported 25-metre fragment travelling over 100 metres
- Wind turbine tower collapse and generator fire in Western Nebraska, cause under investigation
- Onshore wind turbine gearbox failure, published sun shaft fracture analysis
- Multiple onshore wind turbine collapses during Iowa tornado outbreak
- Inverter fire during commissioning at Mannum Solar Farm Stage 2, South Australia
- Onshore wind turbine tower collapse during high winds shortly after installation
- Cascading blackout across Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia after vegetation contact
- Second blade failure of 2024 at Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm
- Blade damage during construction at Dogger Bank A offshore wind farm
- Blade failure at Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project, Massachusetts
- Hand crush injury on a wind turbine service lift, landing gate guarding and external control positioning
- Rooftop solar fire investigation, DC arc fault originating at a module junction box
- Recurrent inverter failures at Kopli Solar Power Plant, Estonia
- Container fire at SDG&E Escondido battery storage yard, California
- Regulatory settlement sets cleanup duties after Gateway Energy Storage fire in San Diego
- Vestas onshore wind turbine blade failures across US sites 2024
- Co-located solar and battery storage site fire requiring multi-day response
- Offshore wind turbine blade failure during commissioning
- Lithium-ion BESS thermal event with flare-ups over several days
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