General news

Transpower congratulates its collaboration partners on Transmission Gully project win at the 2019 New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards.

Transpower New Zealand Limited has today announced the appointment of Richard Hobbs to the position of General Manager Strategy on the General Management Team.

Transpower is currently testing new unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) technologies to cut the number of helicopter flights required for visual inspections of its assets.

Transpower is reminding all those heading out on the water this summer of restrictions in the Cook Strait Cable Protection Zone (CPZ).

We have submitted our third regulatory control period proposal to the Commerce Commission, setting out our vision for the national grid between 2020 - 2025.

Transpower is undertaking some planned maintenance work on the HVDC link- the transmission line running between North and South Island.

Following yesterday’s events in Taupō, our engineers have identified that further work needs to be done at Wairakei substation to avoid the risk of another unexpected outage.

This update follows our earlier update on the outage affecting the Wider Taupō region. Our crews are currently onsite and have restored power to...

At 08:41 this morning a fault occurred in the switch room of our Wairakei substation.

Transpower advises that we are currently experiencing a power outage on our network, affecting approximately 31,000 people the wider Taupō region.