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Earth Potential Rise (EPR) Mitigation Information Sheet
In the rare event of a lightning strike or fault on the transmission line, towers or poles may transfer high voltage and dangerous currents into the ground for a very short instant. This is...
- 05 May 2020
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Earth Potential Rise Info Sheet.pdf [ pdf 1.46 MB ]
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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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Maps and GIS Data
This page contains maps, services, and diagrams relating to Transpower assets.
- 03 December 2018
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Transmission-map-north-island0721.pdf [ pdf 774.25 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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Transpower's Keys to Life
Tranpower's "Keys to Life" are our key safety expectations for Transpower staff and contractors. They are critical to individual safe work practices.
- 26 July 2018
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Transpower's Keys to Life [ pdf 1.13 MB ]
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Stakeholder Forum presentation- May 2018
As part of our commitment to our stakeholders we regularly hold industry forums to focus on topical issues, to help us identify and set out our priorities.
- 03 May 2018
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Stakeholder Forum 3 May 2018 - presentation.pdf [ pdf 8.06 MB ]
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