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Keeping the power grid safe from solar storms
Transpower is playing a key role is determining how best to protect vulnerable power grids from devastating geomagnetic storms caused by extreme solar activity.
- 06 May 2019
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TP Innovation - Solar Flares May 2019.pdf [ pdf 2.24 MB ]
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Protecting our critical equipment
The performance of our HVDC link directly affects our Grid and wholesale electricity market. Anything we do to improve the efficiency and robustness of this link provides value to all...
- 30 March 2019
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TP Innovation - Protecting our Critical Equipment March 2019.pdf [ pdf 2.37 MB ]
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Kanban breaks the backlog
Over the last year, our Enterprise Services Support (ESS) team has used Kanban to significantly reduce incident turnaround times.
- 12 December 2018
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TP Innovation - Kanban breaks the backlog.pdf [ pdf 826.18 KB ]
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Robots: our substation eyes and ears
In partnership with Massey University, we're developing a substation robot service to provide rapid, real time situational awareness at some of our most remote sites. We are using a '...
- 21 November 2018
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TP Innovation - Substation Robot November 2018.pdf [ pdf 1.05 MB ]
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A step change to climb detection
Small lightweight detectors based on low power, low bandwidth Internet of Things (IoT) devices promise to deliver simple, reliable detection so we can quickly respond to climbing...
- 01 October 2018
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TP Innovation - Tower Climbing Sensor.pdf [ pdf 874.02 KB ]
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The power of cognitive search
Following the success of a machine learning/artificial intelligence (AI) innovation sprint in 2017, we see the potential for AI to search, extract and collate expert information for engineers...
- 31 August 2018
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TP Innovation - Power of Cognitive.pdf [ pdf 375.29 KB ]
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Demand Response Factsheet
A guide to what Demand Response is, why it is important, and how it works.
- 18 March 2013
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Demand Response Factsheet [ pdf 3.96 MB ]
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Upper North Island Demand-Side Initiatives factsheet
In the context of power supply, demand-side initiatives are initiatives that occur at the consumers’ end of the power supply, to disconnect non-essential electrical load at certain...
- 07 June 2012
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Upper North Island Demand-Side Initiatives factsheet [ pdf 67.37 KB ]