Incidents from 2024 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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Over about two months to mid-December 2024, five electricity substations in wards 90 and 97 of the eThekwini Municipality caught fire or exploded, according to a report in The Citizen. In October the Dan Pienaar Road substation in Amanzimtoti exploded,...
A transformer explosion occurred at Matla Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on the afternoon of 12 December 2024, affecting Unit 6. Unit 5 was taken offline as a precautionary measure. Initial reports indicate nine employees were injured, with one in...
The Estlink 2 interconnector between Finland and Estonia suffered a sudden power outage on 25 December 2024. Finland's transmission system operator Fingrid reported a possible failure of the electricity cable. Authorities are investigating the chain of...
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A transformer exploded near Trinity Elementary School on Pelham Road in New Rochelle, causing power cuts affecting 528 customers and closing Pelham Road from Church Street to North Avenue. Flames were seen on a pole. Power was restored by about 10:50 a.m. and...
On 13 December 2024, A2 CNN reported a fire at the electrical substation in Draçin, Shkodër, with power outages in some areas of the city. The same report said the fire also involved two other electrical substations. A fire-service account in that report...
On 12 December 2024, reporting described a massive fire at a 66 kV substation in Ludhiana, India. A director of PSPCL visited the site to oversee restoration, and PSPCL was quoted as saying it was working to limit disruption. The available text does not...
A transformer failure at a Southern California Edison substation in the Downey/Norwalk area of California caused a widespread power outage on 24 December 2024. Southern California Edison said the outage began around 1:30 p.m. and affected more than 31,000...
Storm Darragh caused significant visible damage to the Porth Wen Solar Farm on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales, which was commissioned in 2024. EDF Renewables, which owns the 49.99MW site, confirmed the solar farm had sustained damage during the storm and said it...
Mingyang Smart Energy said that blades fractured on a newly developed wind turbine prototype being tested at its large wind turbine test centre in Lingao, Hainan, China. The company said the turbine was under extreme-condition testing, that the blades met...
In December 2024, during the evening peak, an explosion occurred at an electrical substation of approximately 90 years of age in Brooklyn, New York City, supplying traction and auxiliary power to the New York City Subway. The force of the explosion blew a...
During 2023 and 2024 a series of damage incidents affected submarine cables and a subsea gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland, in the waters of Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany and Denmark, drawing sustained attention from...
On Saturday 2 November 2024, fire crews were sent to a solar power plant in Bataguassu, Mato Grosso do Sul, after the plant's monitoring centre detected signs of smoke. On arrival, crews found that the fire was concentrated in vegetation around and beneath...
Tower 33 at the Halkirk 2 wind project near Castor fell on 8 November 2024 while the recently constructed site was being brought online and introducing power to Alberta's grid. The collapse caused a complete loss of the tower and a suspension order for the...
On the morning of 26 November 2024, a wind turbine near Mechanicsville in Cedar County, Iowa, United States, was brought down with explosives at 7:30. Cedar County Emergency Management said Acciona, the owner, was removing it because it was no longer...
On 19 November 2024, Newburyport firefighters responded to reports of smoke from the roof of a single-family home on Merrimac Street. On arrival they found a solar panel on fire on the roof of an addition. Crews knocked the fire down quickly, and a portion of...
A 36-year-old worker was killed on 11 November 2024 at the Golden Plains Wind Farm near Rokewood, Victoria. According to published reporting, a wind turbine blade came loose from scaffolding during assembly and crushed him. The worker was engaged as a...
In November 2024 a fire broke out in the afternoon at a battery energy storage system installed at a 1.6 MW solar power facility in Hongnong-eup, Dandeok-ri, Yeonggwang-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea. Around fifteen fire engines and dozens of firefighters...
On a Tuesday morning in October 2024, a transformer on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln city campus in Lincoln, Nebraska, failed and exploded at about 8:45 a.m. Lincoln Fire and Rescue was called to North 14th and Avery Street, beside a parking garage....
Volta River Authority (VRA) transformer lines in the Area Two neighbourhood of Sunyani caught fire in the early hours of Thursday 3 October 2024. Residents reported hearing an explosion before seeing the transformer on fire. Attempts by residents to bring the...
As Hurricane Milton moved through Florida, several electrical transformers exploded in Cape Coral. Video submitted to Gulf Coast News and Weather shows a transformer exploding off Santa Barbara by Cape Parkway. NBC2 crews reported seeing multiple transformers...
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