We cover news from public bodies and utility companies for UK households on power cuts, weather, water, health, safety and security. Each report includes the date and sources, with links to our guides.
SSEN Distribution has put additional teams on standby after its weather model forecast wind gusts of up to 50mph from Saturday lunchtime into the early evening, with possible interruptions to power…
SSEN Distribution has put additional teams in place ahead of forecast lightning on Saturday 8 July 2023 that could bring some interruptions to power supplies across its network area.
SSEN Distribution has warned of heavy rain and lightning across the north of Scotland and cancelled all major planned outages there as a precaution, with extra teams in place to deal with faults.
A neutral fault on Northern Powergrid's network in Grimsby at 02:40 on 22 March 2023 supplied up to 415 Volts to outlets in around 500 homes across 20 streets, damaging electrics and appliances.
High winds with gusts of up to 55mph cut power to around 8,500 SSEN customers across central southern England on 13 March 2023, with engineers restoring supplies through the day and evening.
SSEN has warned households in central southern England that strong winds on Monday 13 March 2023 could damage its network and interrupt supplies, with gusts of up to 60mph forecast in coastal areas.
Storm Otto cut power to 43,000 homes across northern Scotland on 17 February 2023, with SSEN reporting more than 200 high voltage faults and all supplies restored by 19 February.
Storm Otto left around 16,000 properties without power in north east Scotland on 7 February 2023, after gusts of 85mph brought down trees and branches, with SSEN warning some rural homes would be off…
SSEN restored power to more than 27,000 properties after Storm Otto but around 16,000 remained off supply, with mobile food vans sent to nine locations in Aberdeenshire.
SSEN contacted more than 130,000 Priority Services Register customers and called the most vulnerable as Storm Otto left around 16,000 properties without power, mainly in Aberdeenshire.
SSEN Distribution moved to Weather Warning status on 7 February 2023 ahead of severe gales forecast for the north of Scotland from Wednesday afternoon, with winds potentially reaching 70mph in exposed…
SSEN Distribution has moved to Weather Warning status ahead of severe gales forecast for the north of Scotland from around midnight on Monday night, with gusts over 70mph in exposed and coastal areas.
SSEN Distribution moved to Weather Warning status at 15:00 on 18 December 2022 ahead of freezing rain, snow and winds of up to 60mph forecast for Argyll and West Highland, and Orkney.
An extreme snow and ice storm hit Shetland on Monday 12 December 2022, cutting power to 5,289 homes, with the final 24 properties reconnected six days later on Sunday 18 December.
SSEN Distribution moved to Weather Warning status on 15 November 2022 ahead of strong winds and heavy rain forecast to affect Shetland and parts of the north of Scotland from Wednesday 16 November.
SSEN Distribution moved to Weather Warning status on 1 November 2022 ahead of strong winds, heavy rain and lightning forecast for the north of Scotland that Wednesday and Thursday.
A glider tow wire came down on a high voltage overhead cable in West Sussex, cutting power to about 3,250 customers while engineers removed it and checked the network.
The final reports into the response to Storm Arwen have been published, setting out actions to improve electricity network resilience, with three network operators agreeing to pay an additional £10.28…
Ofgem has published its final report into how electricity distribution network operators responded to Storm Arwen, with recommendations on resilience, communication, compensation and winter planning.
Ofgem has published a GHD technical review of how the electricity distribution network operators prepared for and responded to Storm Arwen, which cut power to just under one million homes in November…