Luke Kirkness: Beating the winter blackouts
Opinion: It's time to shine a brighter light on power solutions after an outage warning.
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Transpower warns of potentially tight winter power supply
Transpower was forced to call five separate 'grid emergencies' during 2021 and 2022.
Transpower fined after power failure to 34,000 homes
Power cut to 34,000 homes came on coldest night with highest-ever demand for electricity.
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Northland news in brief: Slip stabilised; toy gun call-out and SH10 resealing
News snippets from across Northland and surrounds.
Northlanders urged to prepare for more power cuts
Big slip threatens two high-voltage lines carrying power to Northland.
Substation fault causes thousands to lose power in BoP
Pāpāmoa and Te Puke residents lost power around 7.55am.
Silver lining for Genesis Energy from bad weather
Genesis Energy expects to report a record annual profit due to high rainfall.
Flooded Hawke's Bay substation identified as 'critically at risk' in 2020
Officials knew flooded substation was vulnerable and planned to begin work to fix it.
Revealed: First sabotage convict attempted to bring down national grid
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Transpower's grid warnings highlight NZ's reliance on renewables
About 85 per cent of New Zealand's power supply comes from renewable sources.
Transpower confident there won't be power cuts tonight
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Grid emergency - Transpower lost generation from three power sources
Transpower issued a formal notice to all registered electricity market participants.
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Large part of the Coromandel without power
Parts of the Coromandel will be without power until 1pm.
Opinion: Blackout no case for electricity reform
OPINION: There is no need for ministerial intervention in a system that is working.
More power woes: Some Hawke's Bay residents suffer outage for second time in a week
The power cut appeared to be managed by reducing hot water charging.
Transpower focus of urgent probe into blackout
Grid operator comms blunder meant homes in dark when there was enough power.
Power outages: 'Transpower asked us to reduce load by 20 per cent', WEL Networks speaks out
WEL Networks says it repeatedly questioned Transpower about dropping power load.
Power cuts: Mercury, Genesis offering credit
Those who went without electricity have a legal right to compensation.
Power outages: No time 'to turn Huntly turbines on', former Genesis boss says
Talks need to start about encouraging long term investment in the country's power sector.
Government walks back attack on Genesis
Megan Woods had said gentailers made 'commercial decisions' before power outage.
Live: Govt blames power companies' 'commercial decisions' for outages
Not acceptable for Kiwis to be without power on coldest night of year: Woods.
Green power: Surge expected in plans for wind and solar electricity generation
Transpower expects to see increased investment in renewables power generation.
Cause of central North Island power outage not determined
Power was restored to the 4000-plus homes three hours after the outage.
Four thousand central North Island properties without power
A fault on the Transpower network has cut electricity to the central North Island.
Hydro power: More dry weather may mean blackouts, switch to coal-generated
The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter agreed to cut down its power use to conserve supply.
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The 622 megawatt question overhanging the generation game
The closure of the Tiwai Point smelter will usher in a new era for NZ's power generators.
Power company shares trade sharply lower on smelter closure plan
New Zealand's power generators were hit hard by Tiwai's closure.
The bird, its poo and the huge power outage that hit Northland
Is this the bird whose poo cut Northland's power?