Notice: The Chamber's documentation and customs declaration services announce festive opening hours. Click here to view.

Many businesses have been left without power this morning after 90mph coastal winds battered Scotland overnight.

As of 8am today, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said it was dealing with 266 outages across Scotland, with Aberdeenshire the hardest hit region.

Squads of engineers have been redeployed from England to repair the damage caused by the weather, which has also caused widespread travel disruption.

Power latest

About 37,000 homes were without power on Monday morning as Storm Corrie knocked out supplies to 30,000 customers.

Engineers are still working to reconnect 7,000 customers who lost power during Storm Malik on Saturday.

SSEN said: "The main areas which continue to be affected are rural Aberdeenshire, with pockets of customers also off supply in Angus, the Highlands, the Moray Coast and Perthshire.

"Due to the cumulative impact of Storm Malik and the anticipated damage caused by Storm Corrie, SSEN expects that full customer restoration will extend into the early part of this week, particularly in rural areas in Aberdeenshire.

"SSEN has been tracking Storm Malik and Storm Corrie for several days and has enacted its established resilience plans, mobilising additional teams and resources to areas expected to be impacted, including teams from our licence area in central southern England and contractors. All available operations teams are working to restore power to customers affected as quickly as possible, where it is safe to do so."

'Significant damage'

Rail travel has been disrupted with all services on the Inverness – Aberdeen and the Far North lines cancelled yesterday, while ScotRail stopped all services from 18:00 on Sunday for safety purposes. Travellers are being urged to check for updates before heading out.

Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: "Safety is our number one priority. Ministers are being kept updated and will take further action as necessary. In the meantime I thank all those who are working in difficult conditions to keep people safe and maintain our lifeline services.”

More like this…

View all