Energy prices to PLUMMET with 100mph weather bomb slashing electricity cost by 50% as tornado gusts see wind power surge

AN IMMINENT "weather bomb" is expected to slash the outgo of energy by 50 percent arsenic tornado gusts nonstop upwind turbines into overdrive.

Energy prices person been sky-high precocious aft upwind farms produced the lowest levels of energy since September 2023, truthful the dip volition beryllium welcomed by cash-strapped Brits.

Cloudy and inactive weather dragged energy accumulation down to astir zero connected Wednesday.

Combined with greater request from radical to spot them done the cold, acheronian months, this meant the terms of energy climbed to astir £250 per megawatt-hour - 7 times the pre-pandemic price.

But gusts of up to 100mph whipped up by Storm Eowynon connected Thursday and Friday volition occurrence the manufacture backmost up.

Wind-powered vigor output is expected to surge 40-fold wrong 48 hours - meaning prices volition beryllium slashed by much than half.

The fluctuation successful renewable energy output has reignited calls for the UK to put successful "long-duration vigor storage", wherever energy tin beryllium acceptable speech successful times of precocious production.

It could past beryllium drawn up into the nationalist grid during energy droughts.

Akshay Kaul, a manager astatine vigor regulator Ofgem, said: “We’ve seen this winter that erstwhile you person a play of still, cold, cloudy upwind [that] batteries connected their own, and [power] interconnectors connected their own, are not sufficient.”

Ashkay said Ofgem was mounting speech funds to pull concern successful long-duration vigor storage, which it hopes volition beryllium built by 2030.

Aside from cheaper energy, determination is small crushed to observe the imminent bout of freak weather.

Torrential rainfall and snowfall is expected to travel the gale-force winds successful immoderate areas of the country.

Travel disruption is precise apt and flying debris could origin damages to cars and buildings.

The strongest upwind gusts are expected successful Northern Ireland and confederate parts of Scotland connected Friday, and the Met Office has issued a reddish informing for these areas.

This is the astir terrible alert level and means the upwind is apt to origin "substantial disruption to travel, vigor supplies and perchance wide harm to spot and infrastructure".

Thousands of schools are expected to close, with drivers being warned to enactment disconnected the roads.

A tornado has already ripped done Cornwall up of the storm, tearing tiles from roofs and smashing down fences.

Over 4.5 cardinal radical person received warnings to their phones astir the imminent danger, telling them to enactment alert.

The startling informing pinged straight to the phones of the 4.5 cardinal radical affected crossed Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland.

The alert was issued to urgently rise caution up of the 100mph winds successful circumstantial areas.

A siren was heard by those who had acceptable their devices to silent.