#New Zealand

Meridian Energy has taken delivery of a 108-tonne transformer for its Manapōuri power station.

New Zealand utility Contact Energy Limited will acquire Manawa Energy Limited, a local renewables firm.

This month New Zealand’s national grid owner and operator Transpower is undertaking a comprehensive aerial laser survey by helicopter.

New Zealand: Transpower has cancelled a grid emergency in New Zealand after Cyclone Gabrielle flooded the Redclyffe Substation on 14 February.

New Zealand: The Clyde Dam transformers have reached the end of the line and are being replaced by owner operator Contact Energy.

New Zealand: Northpower is spending just over $18 M replacing ageing transformers around Whangārei and Kaipara for better electricity supply security.

New Zealand, Putaruru: Wilson Transformer Company has announced on 23 August to have delivered a new power transformer in New Zealand.

New Zealand, Lower Hutt: Power has been restored to 4000 customers in Lower Hutt, as the grid operator continues to fix the cause of the fault.

New Zealand: When fully operational, the Turitea wind farm is expected to produce enough wind energy to power 375,000 electric vehicles per year.

EMROD has developed first commercially viable long-range, high-power, wireless power transmission as an alternative to existing copper line technology.

A car crash between two vehicles occured; one of the vehicles damages a high voltage cable and cutting power to 38 homes.

Kiwi start-up Emrod claims to have developed the world’s first long-range, high-power, wireless power transmission technology

Papua New Guinea: The people and Goverment of Japan have been commended for their partnership in the Papua New Guinea electrification programme.

Transpower, the owner and operator of New Zealand’s high voltage transmission network, completed a $2.6 M project at the Woodville substation last week.

New Zealand, New Plymouth: Transpower confirms closing a substation and removing 2.5 km of high voltage lines and pylons near Port Taranaki.

Auckland’s electricity and water utility companies have announced a project to build New Zealand’s largest solar array in the heart of Auckland’s North Shore.

New Zealand: Northpower has marked a $6 M investment in a new substation at Maunu.

New Zealand: Multiple power outages have struck across Auckland and lower Northland, leaving thousands without electricity.

New Zealand, Hawke’s Bay: Etel Limited, New Zealand distribution transformer manufacturing business owned by Unison Group, has invested in an Indonesian transformer equivalent, purchasing a 90 per cent shareholding in Lucky Light Globalindo, which supplies the Indonesian market.

New Zealand, Christchurch: One day after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit east Christchurch on Sunday, three huge explosions shook Christchurch power substation on Monday.

New Zealand, Waikato: A New Zeland’s utility company Powerco has invested USD 1.2 million in an upgrade of its substation at Waharoa, Waikato, which included adding a 17 MVA transformer capable of powering 8,500 households.

New Zealand, Hawke’s Bay: New Zealand electricity distributor Unison Networks is investing $2.8 million in an upgrade of its Flaxmere substation in Hastings to enhance reliability of supply to the surrounding community and industry.

New Zealand, Southland: Invercargill, New Zealand’s and the world’s southernmost city might soon power up with an upgraded substation as independent commissioner is to consider a planned substation upgrade in its residential area.

New Zealand, Northland: A new power transformer arrived in Kaitaia as part of the multimillion-dollar reconstruction of Top Energy’s power network in the Far North, New Zealand.