General news

As owner and operator of the National Grid, Transpower will be flying an Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from its Drury substation (40 km south of Auckland City) to its Bombay substation between 16-20...

Transpower advises that it has now put its transformer back in service at the Brunswick substation.

There is currently a power outage affecting some areas around Whanganui following a tripping of a transformer at about 8:20am this morning at Brunswick substation.

Transpower announced today that it would pay a special dividend to its shareholder of $65.7 million on 28 June 2013.

Transpower’s Energy Market Services today announced that its new energy exchange, emTrade, will be launched on 1 August 2013 and be available for live trading 1 September 2013.

Transpower Chairman Mark Verbiest today announced that Patrick Strange, will be leaving Transpower in early 2014 to pursue other interests.

Transpower announced today that the latest addition to the National Grid – HVDC Pole 3 – has been commissioned and will be put into full-time service from 8pm tonight.

Transpower has released its third quarter report containing Transpower's unaudited financial results for the nine months ended 31 March 2013.

At 1:03pm, Transpower started to restore power to its network following a power outage that affected the Cambridge area since 12am this morning.

Transpower crews have made good progress on repairs and are starting to undertake commissioning tests on the equipment.