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Throughout November 2024, prolonged cold, calm and cloudy conditions led to high electricity demand and low renewable supply, increasing electricity prices across the month.On 8 January 2025, extreme low winds and simultaneous cold temperatures led to a large spike in the average daily real-time electricity price. Similar conditions on 20 January also led to a smaller increase in real-time price.Throughout August 2024, significant amounts of wind power in Scotland had to be curtailed due to high wind power production, increasing balancing costs.Storms Darragh and Éowyn impacted electrical infrastructure – disconnecting over 3 million customers between them – through strong winds and flooding from heavy rainfall.Whilst Éowyn was a stronger storm, Darragh caused more damage to the energy sector, as its path was over populated areas of Wales, and central and northern England.Lightning caused a large number of electricity faults in May and September 2024, particularly in Southern England.
Author(s): Hutchins B, Wright M, Mollard J, Fallon J, Gonzalez P, Rogers I, Staffell I, Swabey S, Bloomfield HC
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title:
Year: 2025
Print publication date: 20/10/2025
Online publication date: 20/10/2025
Acceptance date: 20/10/2025
Institution: Royal Metroecological Society
URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17294538
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17294538
