Newlands and Woodridge Towers to Poles
Last updated: 10 Apr 2024
Transpower plans to replace the transmission towers in and around Newlands and Woodridge in Wellington with modern steel poles, with work happening during 2024 and 2025.
Projects
Northern busway – Power cable repair works
Last updated: 28 Mar 2024
Transpower is undertaking urgent repair work on an underground power cable.
Brownhill-Pakuranga cable remediation
Last updated: 13 Dec 2023
Transpower plans to replace joints at 15 locations on an underground electricity cable between the Brownhill and Pakuranga substations in south-east Auckland.
Murihiku Southland Electrification Development Plan
Last updated: 20 Dec 2023
In response to a significant number of generation and load connection enquiries, as well as from a system reliability and security perspective, Transpower and PowerNet have developed a Murihiku Southland Electrification Development Plan.
Western Bay of Plenty Development Plan
Last updated: 12 Dec 2023
Information about planning for increased electricity capacity in the Western Bay of Plenty
Upper South Island upgrade project
Last updated: 04 Mar 2024
Early information about our plans to increase supply resilience to the South Island north of Geraldine
Paekakariki-Takapu Road Tower Replacement Project
Last updated: 12 Dec 2023
Transpower has a project underway to replace five towers of its Paekakariki-Takapu Road 110 kV line with new pole structures.
Tauhara Generation Connection
Last updated: 12 Dec 2023
Building a connection point to Contact Energy's new Tauhara geothermal generation station.
Net Zero Grid Pathways programme (NZGP)
Last updated: 12 Dec 2023
How we can enable new renewables and electrification across all of Aotearoa out to 2035 through developments in the grid backbone.