2010 Northpower News
Smarter Meters in New Zealand
It was widely reported last year that electricity meters are being installed in New Zealand that cannot meet the industry’s expectation for fully Smart Meters.
Ngawha gets credit for power staying on
Northern Advocate, Whangarei
More than 23,000 Northpower customers were without power because of an electricity network outage south of Auckland, but Far North consumers were spared thanks to the Ngawha Geothermal Power Station.
Summary of Transpower Grid Emergency
Power supply to Northpower customers was interrupted yesterday when Transpower lost two transmission circuits south of Auckland at a time when the Otahuhu Generation Station was also off line, this constrained the supply to Auckland and Northland. The major cause of the disruption was a fire sparked by pylons in a shelterbelt of trees.
Upper North hit by massive power cut
Suff.co.nz by Michael Field
Armed police were needed to help Transpower gain access to power lines over a Waikato farm after the landowner refused to let the company fix a major power fault this afternoon.
City chaos as car hits pensioner
Northern Advocate, Whangarei by Lindy Laird
A three-car accident has left an elderly pedestrian in Whangarei Hospital with head and leg injuries and caused major disruption to central Whangarei. Three other people were also hurt in the incident, near the Walton St and Vine St intersection, about 1.40pm yesterday. The crash took out a power pillar box and blocked busy Walton St for at least two hours.
Businesses Call For Reliable Broadband
Businesses across the country are struggling with inconsistent, and at times non-existent, broadband services.
Hundreds without power after crash: Police say 19-year-old driver faces drink-driving charges
Northern Advocate, Whangarei
by André Hueber
Six hundred Whangarei Heads residents were without electricity after a car ploughed into a power pole.
Chairman Warren Moyes speaks to LiveSport about rural broadband
Northpower’s chairman Warren Moyes discusses problems in getting broadband “to the farm gate and beyond”.
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