Incidents from 2025 across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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On 29 December 2025 a fast-spreading wildfire in the commune of Romeral, Curicó, Chile, affected a solar panel park in the area, according to local media. The local emergency coordinator described the solar park as the main concern, with the fire moving along...
About 200 gallons of diesel were spilled near the Meta Data Center compound in Altoona, Iowa, on 3 December 2025, during routine maintenance on an on-site generator. The generator was being serviced by Turner Construction Company, according to WHO 13 and the...
Early on Sunday morning, a fault occurred in a high-voltage transformer at the Manali 400/230 kV substation, which supplies power to the city. Maintenance staff switched on the transformer's safety devices and isolated it from the distribution system. Heat...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A published report says the Crystal City site, Zavala County data centre in Crystal City, Texas, United States operated by NFN8 Group, one of three sites leased by the operator, was damaged by a fire in the week between Christmas and New Year at the end of...
A shed fire in Loudoun County, United States, was reported to have spread to nearby high-tension power lines and a transformer on a power pole. Officials said a transformer explosion occurred during the incident because of the location of the lines. Fire...
On 19 December 2025, a fire occurred at the West Warwick 3 Battery Energy Storage Site (28 Church Street), located in Warwick, New York, United States. The facility is operated by Convergent Energy and Power, owned by Warwick Valley BBA, and uses battery...
Shortly after midday, a loud explosion was heard at the Good Hope Substation on the East Coast of Demerara, operated by Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL). The substation, a key interconnection point between the Demerara and Berbice systems, went offline...
In the early hours of Thursday, 25 December 2025, a fire broke out at the Olivenhoutbosch substation operated by the City of Tshwane. The blaze was attributed to cable theft, which damaged critical electrical equipment including cabling and switchgear. One...
On Christmas Eve morning, a Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) substation in Saratoga, California, caught fire and emitted black smoke, cutting power to around 16,500 customers directly, with additional outages in the wider area (about 21,000 total, some storm...
A transformer fire in the Richmond District of San Francisco caused an unplanned power outage affecting more than 11,000 Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) customers on Sunday night. The fire was reported around 7:45 p.m. near 12th Avenue and Balboa Street....
A fire broke out on 19 December 2025 inside a single battery container at the Church Street Battery Storage Facility in the Village of Warwick, New York. Convergent is reported as the site's operator. The blaze triggered an alarm and activated the site's...
A fire broke out at a battery energy storage system co-located with a solar power facility in Angang-eup, Gyeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, destroying eight cabinet-type lithium-ion battery units, manufactured by LG Energy Solution, and the...
In December 2025, around the middle of the day, a fire broke out at the Mission Street substation, an urban distribution and transmission substation in San Francisco, California, following the failure of a piece of equipment. Approximately 130,000 customers...
In December 2025, a grass fire broke out shortly after midday at Wellington North Solar Farm, a utility scale solar PV facility of several hundred megawatts near Wellington, close to Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia, operated and owned by Lightsource bp. The...
On the morning of 9 November 2025, an explosion and a fire were reported at a transformer substation in Taganrog, in Russia's Rostov region. A Telegram channel, Astra, stated that the T-25 electric substation exploded on the site of the former TagAZ plant....
On 23 November 2025 a fire broke out at electrical switchgear at the Dresden power generation facility in New York state, USA, owned by Greenidge Generation LLC, a subsidiary of Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. The facility is a 106 MW natural gas plant...
A fire was reported on the territory of the Frolovskaya power substation in Russia's Volgograd region and was attributed to falling drone debris. Forces were said to have been sent to deal with the consequences. As of 23:30, no casualties or major destruction...
Boston 25 News reported video from Cape Cod showing a broken wind turbine after one blade became detached on Friday afternoon in Bourne. The available account does not name the site, the operator or any injuries, and it does not say what caused the blade to...
On the morning of 23 November 2025, a turbine at the Amazon Wind Farm US East, also known as the Desert Wind facility, in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, was photographed with only two blades. Avangrid, which operates the 208 MW site of 104 Gamesa G114...
Adelaide Now reported on 1 November 2025 that a solar panel sparked a fire near a major centre in Noosa. The story address indicates that fire crews were called to a solar panel fire near the Noosa civic centre. The article text was not available, so the size...
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