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Keep track of what's happening at Transpower with the latest Transpower news.
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15 Jun 2010
An agreement that will help improve the security of electricity supply into the greater Auckland region was signed today by Vector and Transpower.
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25 May 2010
Transpower advises that power has been restored to the Te Awamutu area.
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25 May 2010
Transpower advises that the Te Awamutu area is currently experiencing a power outage due to a fault on the Karapiro to Te Awamutu transmission line.
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20 May 2010
Transpower advises that it needs to undertake urgent maintenance work on a transformer in Waverley this Saturday 22 May.
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11 May 2010
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 line from Whakamaru.
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07 May 2010
Power has been restored to the Motupipi area.
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07 May 2010
Transpower advises that it is currently experiencing a power outage at Motupipi that feeds the Golden Bay area.
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28 Apr 2010
Construction work on the new Pole 3 of the HVDC inter-island link starts this week at Benmore substation.
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22 Apr 2010
Transpower advises that power has now been restored on its network in the Wellington area.
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21 Apr 2010
The Minister of Energy and Resources, Hon Gerry Brownlee, turned the first sod of the HVDC Pole 3 project at a ceremony at Haywards substation on 19 April. The event marked the start of construction of the critical electrical systems and buildings of the new Pole.