As Franklin takes the mantle from Eunice, insurers will be left licking their wounds from the cost of the UK's latest major storms, while wind generation companies may wish they could have brought more in.
The MailOnline reported that insurers are bracing for at least £360mln payout to customers affected by the storms, citing one company that saw enquiries increase 400%.
The £360mln estimate was based on the last most significant storms to hit the UK - Claire and Dennis - which were deemed less severe than Eunice or Franklin.
2018’s Beast from the East led to £328mln in weather-related claims to insurers in the first quarter of that year, according to ABI.
While a fraction of those paid out across the Atlantic, including a record US$15bn compensation package following the “polar vortex” in the US in February last year, it underscores the notable impact of the storms on a usually sedate UK weather-based insurance market.
But as insurers fork out hundreds of millions in response to the storms, the wind sector may rue money, and power, being left on the table.
Wind power drove 40% of the UK’s power generation in the 24 hours to 3pm GMT and accounted for 45% during the height of Storm Eunice, compared to an average of 19.3% for the last year.
Companies like Greencoat UK Wind PLC (LSE:UKW), with onshore and offshore windfarms across England and Wales, are likely to have reaped the benefits within a UK sector that leads the world in offshore wind.
But wind turbines tend to max out their speed at 55mph, less than half Eunice’s top recorded speed of 122mph, to prevent damage to the blades, meaning the sector depends on quantity to deliver increased wind power supply to UK homes.
And other, more rudimentary issues, like temperatures and imbalance or misalignment of parts, are seeing producers fall below production potential.
ONYX Insight published research in December that an estimated 11,300 GWh a year was being lost across European and US wind farms, enough to power London for 110 days.