General news

Around 70 percent of those customers who experienced a loss of power supply are now restored. We expect the majority of remaining customers to be restored by 1pm.

Transpower advises that some customers throughout the North Island will be experiencing a power outage due to an issue on the HVDC link during commissioning of Pole 2 and Pole 3.

Transpower advises that the power outage currently affecting the West Auckland is due to a fault on Vector equipment at Hepburn Road.

Transpower advises that their engineers on site believe that a Vector circuit breaker has failed and may have damaged other Vector equipment at the substation.

Transpower advises that there is currently a power outage affecting the West Auckland area following equipment failure at their Hepburn Road Substation.

Transpower advises that there is currently a power outage affecting the West Auckland area following equipment failure at their Hepburn Road Substation.

A short outage was experienced for consumers in Motueka when one of our circuits supplying the area tripped out at about 1.50pm this afternoon.

Consumers in the lower half of the North Island can expect high winds and possible lightning strikes to cause momentary voltage dips on the National Grid.

Transpower’s network is standing up well to the wild weather presently being felt in the centre of New Zealand.

Transpower advises that power has been restored to the Bombay area following a substantial explosion at its Bombay substation earlier this afternoon.