More than 15,000 local homes and businesses are waking up to no electricity this morning.
Storm Éowyn’s been sweeping across the country since the early hours and, as expected, power supply’s been disrupted.
11,091 in Kilkenny are experiencing outages, with three faults in the city centre but also Ballyragget, Castlecomer, Ballyhale and Grannagh.
While in Carlow there’s close to 4,000 impacted, mainly on the Graiguecullen side of Carlow town, in and around the Kilbridge/Clonegal area as well as Bagenalstown and Tullow.
Stay tuned on air and online for updates.
An ESB spokesperson in a 6am update to KCLR News states;
“Extreme, damaging and destructive winds associated with Storm Éowyn have so far caused widespread and extensive damage to the electricity network across the country with over 560,000 homes, farms and businesses (as at 6:00 a.m.) without power. With Met Éireann Status Red and Orange wind warnings remaining in place for the entire country until later this afternoon, significantly more power outages can be expected throughout the day as the storm tracks northwards. Even at current numbers, the damage to the electricity network and impact on customers has been unprecedented.
“ESB Networks continue to closely monitor the storm impact on power supplies and all available resources stand ready to mobilise once safe to do so.
“From our experience of previous significant weather events and due to the severity of Storm Éowyn, we expect that power restoration will take a significant number of days.
“Given the extent of the damage nationwide estimated restoration times (ERTs) will only be provided once our teams have assessed network faults and these will then be available to view throughout Saturday on www.PowerCheck.ie.
“Our Customer Contact Centre Agents will be supporting customers throughout Storm Éowyn but will not be in a position to provide outage information until the network assessment has been fully conducted. ”
An Important Public Safety Message: If you come across fallen wires or damaged electricity network, never, ever touch or approach these as they are LIVE and extremely dangerous. Please report any damage to electricity infrastructure by calling 1800 372 999.
