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Transpower makes repairs to National Grid following quake

Thursday, 10 March 2011, 3:43 pm | Transpower

Media release 9 March 2011 Transpower makes repairs to National Grid following the Christchurch Earthquake More >>

Transpower announces half-year results

Friday, 18 February 2011, 3:57 pm | Transpower

Transpower today announced its financial results for the first six months of the year to 31 December 2010. Operating surplus after tax, prior to movements in the fair value of financial instruments and debt, was $80.4 million. This compares to ... More >>

Transpower consults on options for Lower Waitaki

Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 12:02 pm | Transpower

Transpower, in conjunction with local lines companies Network Waitaki and Alpine Energy, has released a shortlist of possible options to reinforce regional electricity supply in the Lower Waitaki Valley (between Waitaki, Timaru and Oamaru). More >>

Transpower Reaches Agreement With Federated Farmer

Thursday, 2 September 2010, 1:22 pm | Transpower

Transpower welcomes agreement with Federated Farmers on a standardised compensation approach for a major transmission duplexing project in the Lower South Island. Transpower will be compensating those landowners whose farm operations are disrupted by duplexing ... More >>

Transpower launches Smart Grid Project

Wednesday, 1 September 2010, 10:09 am | Transpower

Transpower has begun discussions with interested parties on a multi-million dollar demandside initiative in the Upper North Island to help defer investment in new assets. More >>

Transpower Increases Profit, Pays No Dividend

Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 9:59 am | Transpower

The surplus after tax and before net changes in fair value gain/ (loss) for the year ended 30 June 2010 was $142.4 million, an increase of $6.6 million from 2008/2009. More >>

Prime Minister opens Transpower’s new substation

Wednesday, 18 August 2010, 2:46 pm | Transpower

Prime Minister, the Right Honourable John Key will tomorrow open Transpower’s second substation at Otahuhu, marking the completion of the Otahuhu 220 kV Substation Diversity Project. More >>

Transpower receives final approval for renewables

Monday, 9 August 2010, 7:15 pm | Transpower

Transpower has received final approval from the Electricity Commission for its Lower South Island Facilitating Renewables project. The project, worth up to $170 million, involves releasing extra capacity from More >>

Mayor Rick Cooper Helping to Spread the Word

Saturday, 7 August 2010, 4:30 pm | Transpower

Taupo District Mayor Rick Cooper will be outside Whitcoulls (Horomatangi Street, Taupo) on Monday 9 August from 1pm to approximately 3pm encouraging passers-by and local residents to nominate local voluntary groups and organisations for the TrustPower ... More >>

Protection of the Cook Strait Cable critical

Friday, 2 July 2010, 9:53 am | Transpower

Transpower said today that the importance of the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Cook Strait Cable was highlighted recently when the master of a ship was prosecuted for fishing and diving in the Cook Strait Cable Protection Zone (CPZ). The CPZ protects ... More >>

Drury switching station successfully commissioned

Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 1:44 pm | Transpower

Transpower said today that it has now successfully commissioned a new switching station at Drury, south of Auckland. This is one of several incremental projects to reinforce supply to Auckland prior to the completion and commissioning of the new transmission ... More >>

Power restored to Wellington region

Thursday, 22 April 2010, 4:57 pm | Transpower

Transpower advises that power has now been restored on its network in the Wellington area. More >>

Power outage currently in Central Wellington

Thursday, 22 April 2010, 4:05 pm | Transpower

Transpower advises that it is currently experiencing a power outage in the wider Wellington region. More >>

Next major milestone to start shortly on HVDC

Thursday, 25 March 2010, 10:48 am | Transpower

Transpower said today that the start of the next major milestone on the Pole 3 HVDC project will begin in mid April when construction of the critical electrical systems and buildings, needed to increase the capacity of the link, gets underway. More >>

First transmission STATCOM in New Zealand

Wednesday, 24 February 2010, 2:21 pm | Transpower

Transpower said today that New Zealand’s first large-scale STATCOM at Kikiwa substation (northeast of Murchison) will be in full operation later this month and is part of a suite of projects that will increase security of electricity supply to Nelson- ... More >>

Transpower Announces Half-Year Results

Friday, 19 February 2010, 10:33 am | Transpower

Transpower today announced its financial results for the first six months of the year to 31 December 2009. Operating surplus after tax, prior to movements in the fair value of financial instruments and debt, was $87.6 million. This compares to ... More >>

HVDC Link out of Service

Thursday, 18 February 2010, 1:08 pm | Transpower

Transpower said today that as a precautionary measure, the HVDC inter-island link has been taken out of service due to a fire under an overhead transmission line in the upper South Island. More >>

Transpower welcomes draft approval for upgrade

Saturday, 19 December 2009, 2:02 pm | Transpower

Transpower today welcomed the Electricity Commission’s Notice of Intention to approve the Bay of Plenty Interconnection Capacity Upgrade project. More >>

Major contract awarded for HVDC inter-island link

Friday, 30 October 2009, 2:47 pm | Transpower

Transpower today awarded the principal contract for construction of Pole 3 of the high voltage direct current (HVDC) inter-island link to Siemens. The Pole 3 project, worth up to $672 million, received approval in September 2008 and involves replacing ... More >>

North Auckland, Northland Outage - Power Restored

Friday, 30 October 2009, 1:56 pm | Transpower

Power has now been restored to all areas affected by a power outage this morning due to a forklift carrying a container hitting the 220 kV transmission line between Otahuhu and Henderson. Areas were restored by 1pm. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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