General news

Transpower and Vector have appointed independent industry experts who will undertake the initial technical investigation into the cause of the outage at Penrose on 5 October 2014.

Transpower and Vector will jointly conduct an investigation into the cause of the Penrose fire and outage.

At 2:10AM this morning a number of Transpower assets at our Penrose substation were tripped as a result of damage to some control cables due to a fire in a cable trench.  This has caused an outage for around 85,000 consumers in the...

At 2:10AM this morning a number of Transpower assets at our Penrose substation were tripped as a result of damage to some control cables due to a fire in a cable trench.  This has caused an outage for around 85,000 consumers in the...

From about 2:10 AM this morning a number of Transpower’s assets at its Penrose substation were electrically tripped, causing an outage to consumers in and around Penrose, Mt Wellington and Ellerslie. 
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From about 2:10 AM this morning a number of Transpower’s assets at its Penrose substation were electrically tripped, causing an outage to consumers in and around Penrose, Mt Wellington and Ellerslie. ...

Transpower advises that there is currently a power outage affecting the Penrose, Mt Wellington and Ellerslie areas. We are presently investigating the incident to determine what has happened, but at this stage...

Transpower and Horizon Energy wish to advise customers that there will be a power supply interruption for the whole area supplied from Transpower’s Edgecumbe Substation.  This urgent outage will occur between 2:00pm and 2...

The STAR Awards were held last night in Wellington to recognise achievement and excellence in safety in the electricity transmission industry.

Power supply will be turned off to the area on two occasions – Sunday 31 August, 9:00am – 1:00pm and Sunday 7 September, 9:00am – 1:00pm.