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Review into Storm Arwen impact launched by Electricity North West

by CWH
10 December 2021
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A full review will be carried out into the impact of Storm Arwen, the county’s electricity supplier has announced.

Around 100,000 people were left without power for several days after the storm rampaged across the North West, bringing snow, ice and 65mph winds.

Now Electricity North West has announced it will conduct a full review into the storm, with particular focus on supporting local communities in future events.

Storm Arwen caused extensive damage to the electricity network, plus hindered engineers’ ability to get out and fix issues due to snow drifts and hundreds of fallen trees.

Electricity North West has said that it wants to work with local communities to understand their needs to help reduce the impact of future extreme events.

Electricity North West customer director, Steph Trubshaw, said: “We were amazed by the level of community support shown when Storm Arwen battered the country at the end of last month.

“We want to continue to work with these communities and incredible organisations, many of whom are voluntary, to understand what we can do to help in future.

“Being without power for a long period is incredibly difficult and while our engineers did all they could battling conditions day after day, it was these local community hubs and organisations that were critical to keeping local people going in the areas hardest hit.

“The town halls, churches and other community buildings and centres played a crucial role in the incident response and we want to make sure that we continue to support them.”

The network operator says it will work with these local groups to detail specific help in the new year as part of its review.

Ms Trubshaw added: “We think that our support could extend to a local community fund to which organisations can apply for resources to support communities in such events if they happen again. We want to hear from these groups and individuals to learn what would be most valuable to them so that we can develop the fund to deliver the right help in the right locations.”

Any fund created by Electricity North West would be in addition to compensation payments being paid to customers who were without electricity for over 48 hours. Payments to customers following storms are set nationally by energy regulator Ofgem, depending on the severity of the incident.

Storm Arwen has been classed as a category 2 storm, meaning customers are eligible for payments of £70 if they have been without power for 48 hours, plus a further £70 for each additional 12-hour period that they are off supply.

Electricity North West will reach out to anyone it worked with through the Local Resilience Forums but if anyone wants to respond direct then they are asked to email StormArwen@enwl.co.uk.

The results of the review will be published in the new year.

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