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Transmission Planning Report 2021
Transpower regularly publishes a Transmission Planning Report (TPR) which details the grid asset capability over the next 15 years. ...
- 01 October 2021
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Transmission Planning Report 2021.pdf [ pdf 7.91 MB ]
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2021 Auckland Strategy
Work we’re doing now to futureproof Auckland’s electricity grid.
- 09 June 2021
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Transpower Auckland Strategy 2021 [ pdf 7.32 MB ]
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Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Report
In our role as system operator, Transpower has commissioned an external report to investigate the potential value of DER in a New Zealand context. This report broadly considers the value of...
- 31 August 2020
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Distributed Energy Resources Report - Overview [ pdf 674.67 KB ]
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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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Report on 2 March 2017 South Island AUFLS Event
On 2 March 2017, New Zealand experienced a major and complex power system event. The event resulted in the South Island power system splitting into two separate systems.
- 09 July 2018
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