Select Committee · Transport Committee

Heathrow Airport power outage

Status: Open Opened: 26 Mar 2025

In this one-off evidence session, the Committee will hear from Heathrow Airport and power providers. The session will focus on the recent power outage following a substation fire which led to the closure of Heathrow Airport on Friday 21 March 2025. This is likely to include discussing the resilience of this critical piece of national …

Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
2 Apr 2025 Alice Delahunty · National Grid Electricity Transmission, Eliane Algaard · Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, Nigel Wicking · Heathrow Airline Operators' Committee Limited, Thomas Woldbye · Heathrow Airport Ltd View ↗

Correspondence

2 letters
DateDirectionTitle
23 Apr 2025 To cttee Letter from the Operations Director, SSEN following-up the session on Heathrow …
23 Apr 2025 To cttee Letter from the Chief Executive, Heathrow Airport following-up the evidence ses…