Publications and resources

Work we’re doing now to futureproof Auckland’s electricity grid.

Flying near power lines is dangerous as the conductors (wires) can be difficult to see.

Transpower is playing a key role is determining how best to protect vulnerable power grids from devastating geomagnetic storms caused by extreme solar activity.

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...

Over the last year, our Enterprise Services Support (ESS) team has used Kanban to significantly reduce incident turnaround times.

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 &#39...

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...

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...

Electricity transmission, as well as many electrical appliances, produces electric and magnetic fields (EMF) of extremely low frequency.

This factsheet describes the nature of electric and magnetic fields particularly as they relate to electricity transmission.