General news

Transpower announced that its natural gas spot market, emsTradepoint will today launch its new product range which includes weekly and monthly strip products.

A helicopter will be carrying out routine maintenance inspections of our high voltage transmission lines across parts of the central and lower North Island in late January/early February.

Transpower needs to urgently replace a critical piece of electrical equipment at the Ohakune Substation to ensure a reliable supply of electricity to the Ohakune, Raetihi and surrounding areas.

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...