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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 >>
North Auckland and Northland Outage
Friday, 30 October 2009, 11:05 am | Transpower
Just after 8.00am this morning a circuit on the Otahuhu to Henderson 220 kV line tripped while the other circuit was out for maintenance, causing loss of supply for North Auckland and Northland (about 280,000 consumers). Our investigations since ... More >>
North Auckland and Northland Outage
Friday, 30 October 2009, 10:08 am | Transpower
Just after 8.00am this morning a circuit on the Otahuhu to Henderson 220 kV line tripped while the other circuit was out for maintenance, causing loss of supply for North Auckland and Northland (about 280,000 consumers). We are now bringing one of ... More >>
Transpower releases annual results
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 11:20 am | Transpower
Transpower New Zealand Ltd today released its annual financial report for the 2008/2009 year. The surplus after tax and before net changes in fair value gain/(loss) for the year ended 30 June 2009 was $135.8 million compared with the equivalent 2007/2008 ... More >>
Electrical fault at Haywards Substation
Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 1:06 pm | Transpower
Transpower advises that there has been an electrical fault at Haywards Substation late this morning. Chief Executive Patrick Strange said that there has been no interruption to power supply. “As a precautionary measure, the site has been evacuated. There ... More >>
Transpower receives final decision
Friday, 18 September 2009, 10:06 am | Transpower
Transpower today received a final decision from the Board of Inquiry to approve its proposal to construct a new transmission link between Whakamaru and the southern limits of Auckland, known as the North Island Grid Upgrade Project. Transpower Chief ... More >>
Transpower Welcomes Draft Decision
Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 12:38 pm | Transpower
Transpower welcomes the draft decision released by the Board of Inquiry today. The decision approves Transpower’s proposal to construct a new transmission line between Whakamaru and South Auckland, known as the North Island Grid Upgrade Project. Transpower ... More >>
Transpower repairs high voltage line
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 10:15 am | Transpower
At 3am this Tuesday, 19 May, Transpower removed Pole 2 of the High Voltage Direct Current Link (HVDC link between the North and South Island) from service in order to effect repairs. The line is expected to be back in service later today. The problem ... More >>
Transpower Welcomes Approval Of N Aucland Project
Friday, 1 May 2009, 1:48 pm | Transpower
Transpower has welcomed the Electricity Commission’s final decision to approve the North Auckland and Northland (NAaN) Project, announced today. More >>
HVDC Fully Operational
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 10:33 am | Transpower
Pole 2 of the inter-island High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) link was operational from 1am this morning. Transpower CEO, Dr Patrick Strange is pleased with the speed and quality of the repairs. “Our people worked around the clock to locate the fault, ... More >>
Outage Of HVDC Link
Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 3:25 pm | Transpower
A fault occurred within a converting transformer at Benmore at 10.40pm last night causing Pole 2 of the HVDC link to trip. Investigations indicate that the fault is associated with a component within the transformer. Spare parts are on site and Transpower ... More >>
Transpower Releases Half-Year Report
Friday, 13 March 2009, 11:03 am | Transpower
During the first six months of the financial year to 31 December 2008, Transpower continued with a significant investment programme to restore operation and maintenance margins and upgrade capacity to meet rising load. More >>
Fallen Line In East Tamaki
Friday, 13 February 2009, 1:07 pm | Transpower
A Transpower 220kV conductor (line) fell in Te Irirangi Dr in East Tamaki at 10.40am this morning. There has been no loss of electricity supply or fire. More >>
Transpower To Accelerate Grid Maintenance
Thursday, 12 February 2009, 9:38 am | Transpower
A $50 million upgrade programme to maintain and strengthen structures on the National Grid is to be accelerated. The programme will bring forward required maintenance work that had been planned over the next ten years. More >>
Further Power Cuts In Auckland Unlikely
Thursday, 5 February 2009, 9:26 am | Transpower
A second transformer has been brought back into service at the Penrose Substation. More >>
Power Restored In Auckland
Wednesday, 4 February 2009, 5:07 pm | Transpower
Power has been restored to all areas of Auckland Eastern suburbs that were without power earlier today. Up to 7,000 customers in St Heliers and 4,000 customers in Orakei were without power at different times earlier today, as Transpower sought to reduce ... More >>
