Northern Powergrid is reassuring customers that teams are ready to respond should Storms Dudley and Eunice have an impact on the network.
- The Met Office forecasts severe gale force winds across the company’s operating area with Storm Dudley on Wednesday and Thursday and Storm Eunice on Friday. Winds speeds are forecast to be 60 to 70mph widely with 80mph in places and the potential for gusts of up to 90mph in exposed areas.
- We are closely tracking the weather and ensuring resources are in place to respond if the forecasted back-to-back storms were to impact network.
- Anyone who spots any damaged overhead power lines or other equipment must not approach the area and should report it immediately by calling 105.
- As we did in Storm Malik, we will be implementing the lessons learnt from Storm Arwen.
We are reassuring our customers that we are ready to respond should Storms Dudley and Eunice have an impact on the region's power network and customers’ power supplies.
The Met Office forecasts severe gale force winds across the company’s operating area with Storm Dudley on Wednesday and Thursday and Storm Eunice on Friday. Winds speeds are forecast to be 60 to 70mph widely with potential for gusts of up to 80mph in places, even 90mph in exposed areas. Those wind speeds do have the potential to cause some damage, so there is a relatively high likelihood that there will be some disruption to power supplies.
Paul Glendinning, Director of Policy and Markets, said: "We are closely tracking the weather and have ensured that our resources are in place to respond if the forecasted back-to-back storms impact our network."
"Our network control engineers have capability to restore power supplies remotely, switching electricity through alternative routes on our network wherever possible to get customers back on supply. In parallel our frontline workforce will be deployed to carry out local switching and repairs to restore power as safely and quickly as the conditions allow.”