Lightning strikes continue to cause disruption to the electricity network in north-west Scotland.
Just after 09:00 this morning a lightening strike near Fort Augustus resulted in a loss of supply to Skye and the Western Isles. In total around 27,000 customers are currently without power.
Engineers are now working on the fault and we are hopeful that supplies will be restored within three hours.
A spokesman for SHEPD said: “We’d like to apologise to customers for the loss of supply this morning. We appreciate that many of these customers also lost supply yesterday and we’d like to assure them that we are doing everything we can to get them back on as quickly as possible.”
Lightning has been the biggest feature of the 'weather bomb.' It has continued through the night and is forecast to continue today.
We have good levels of resource on the ground across the Highlands and Islands and will work hard to ensure that all faults are repaired as quickly as possible.
Yesterday SHEPD engineers restored supplies to around 31,000 customers affected by more than 100 high voltage network faults mostly caused by lightning strikes.