ESB Crews Work To Restore Power To Homes In Wicklow Impacted By Storm

Storm Éowyn brought unprecedented, widespread and extensive damage to electricity infrastructure resulting in 768,000 customers losing supply on 24 January. 

Storm Éowyn brought unprecedented, widespread and extensive damage to electricity infrastructure resulting in 768,000 customers losing supply on 24 January. 

As of 5.25pm on Monday, ESB Networks has restored supply to 564,000 homes, farms and businesses – 204,000 customers remain without supply  

Support from Great Britain have been deployed to worst impacted areas, and further support is set to arrive from electricity network operators in Austria, Finland, Netherlands and France   

Expected restoration times have been updated on PowerCheck.ie, this shows that by Friday 31 January, the vast majority of those impacted by Storm Éowyn will have had supply restored. 

After this we expect that the remaining, approximately 100,000 customers, will progressively have their supply restored over the course of next week