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Further Power Cuts In Auckland
Wednesday, 4 February 2009, 12:05 pm | Transpower
Further power outages are occurring in the eastern suburbs that were affected by theoutages yesterday. Consumers are being asked to reduce demand immediately. More >>
Auckland Asked To Conserve Electricity
Wednesday, 4 February 2009, 11:28 am | Transpower
Businesses and residents in the areas affected by yesterday’s power outage are being asked to conserve electricity use today. Transpower’s Penrose Substation is operating at reduced capacity until another trans-former can be restored to service, ... More >>
Electricity Being Restored In Auckland
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 4:02 pm | Transpower
Electricity is being progressively restored in Auckland’s Eastern suburbs after a Transpower transformer fault at the Penrose Substation at 1.10pm this afternoon caused a loss of electricity. More >>
Electricity Outage In Auckland
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 1:50 pm | Transpower
A transformer fault occurred at 1.10pm this afternoon Transpower’s Penrose Substation. A loss of electricity to 74,000 customers in Auckland’s Eastern suburbs has occurred as a result. More >>
Transpower submits investment proposal
Thursday, 18 December 2008, 12:46 pm | Transpower
Transpower has submitted an investment proposal to the Electricity Commission to build a new double circuit 220 kV transmission line between Wairakei and Whakamaru by 2013. The submission of a proposal completes the work that began earlier in the ... More >>
Preferred option for Wairakei to Whakamaru
Friday, 31 October 2008, 9:23 am | Transpower
Transpower today announced its preferred option for reinforcing its transmission network between Wairakei and Whakamaru following an initial application of the regulatory Grid Investment Test to a number of short-listed options. More >>
New electricity information website launched
Friday, 24 October 2008, 12:35 pm | Transpower
Transpower announced today that its subsidiary company Energy Market Services (EMS) has launched a new informative electricity site www.em6live.co.nz that allows greater accessibility to NZ electricity market data. More >>
Transpower releases annual results
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 2:59 pm | Transpower
Transpower New Zealand Ltd today released its annual financial report for the 2007/2008 year, under the new International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). More >>
Community projects benefit from Transpower’s Fund
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 10:04 am | Transpower
Transpower announced today that 23 community organisations throughout New Zealand will benefit from $598,300 of funding from its CommunityCare Fund. The projects funded span eight regions, including Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Taranaki, Central North ... More >>
Consultion on options for the Wairakei-Whakamaru
Monday, 8 September 2008, 3:31 pm | Transpower
Transpower today released a shortlist of possible options to upgrade the Wairakei – Whakamaru transmission lines. The four options range from upgrades to the existing lines, through to building a new line. More >>
Transpower appoints new members to its Executive
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 4:15 pm | Transpower
Transpower New Zealand today announced the appointment of three new members to its Executive team – Mike Carter as General Manager Grid Projects, David Brewer as General Manager Grid Performance and Bob Simpson in a newly created role of Chief ... More >>
Inspection activity in Upper South Island
Friday, 29 August 2008, 2:26 pm | Transpower
Transpower said today that it was undertaking additional inspection activity on the DC transmission line in the Upper South Island and apologised to landowners and residents for any inconvenience this may cause. More >>
Approval for HVDC Pole 1 replacement welcomed
Saturday, 2 August 2008, 4:25 pm | Transpower
Transpower has welcomed the Electricity Commission’s (EC) notice of intention to approve its proposal to replace Pole 1 of the HVDC inter-island link. The proposed project, worth up to $672million, involves replacing the older Pole 1 equipment with ... More >>
‘Powersavers’ advertising draws to a close
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 1:59 pm | Transpower
The industry-funded Powersavers advertising campaign will end this week after six weeks of TV, print and radio advertising encouraging consumers to conserve electricity through simple and convenient measures. More >>
Electricity investment underway for security
Thursday, 17 July 2008, 2:06 pm | Transpower
A period of major investment in new electricity infrastructure - of a scale not seen since the 1970s - is underway to help secure New Zealand’s long-term energy future. Over $7 billion is being spent on generation and transmission in the next few years. More >>
Power savings campaign to continue
Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 12:28 am | Transpower
Convenor of the Winter Power Group and Transpower Chief Executive Patrick Strange said today that the powersaving campaign will continue to run for another two weeks in an effort to increase South Island storage levels. More >>
Transpower welcomes interim approval
Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 3:40 pm | Transpower
Transpower said today that it welcomed the Electricity Commission’s (EC) notice of intention to approve its proposal to reinforce electricity supply to the West Coast region. More >>
Higher level of powersaving achieved
Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 4:18 pm | Transpower
“National power savings increased to 4.6% for the week to Tuesday 8 July, compared to the same week last year, the highest in this winter’s campaign” said Dr Patrick Strange, convenor of the Winter Power Group and Chief Executive of Transpower. In ... More >>
New Zealanders urged to keep saving power in July
Friday, 4 July 2008, 2:49 pm | Transpower
Patrick Strange, convenor of the Winter Power Group and Chief Executive of Transpower, thanked New Zealanders for their continued effort on saving power at work and at home. The latest results show lower South Island region continues to be the top powersaving ... More >>
Lower South Island leads powersaving effort
Tuesday, 1 July 2008, 3:51 pm | Transpower
For the week to Tuesday 1 July, national savings of 3.2% were achieved over the corresponding period in the previous year. On Friday 27 June national power savings of 3.6% were reported. According to Patrick Strange, convenor of the Winter Power ... More >>
