Electricity Being Restored In Auckland

Media release
3 February 2009, 3.30pm

Electricity Being Restored In Auckland

Electricity is being progressively restored in Auckland’s Eastern suburbs after a Transpower transformer fault at the Penrose Substation at 1.10pm this afternoon caused a loss of electricity.

At this time approximately 20,000 customers are still without electricity in Orakei, St Heliers and Glen Innes, but Transpower estimates the outage will be fully restored within the hour.

Because it will take some time to replace the faulty transformer, Transpower is running the substation on reduced equipment and is asking consumers in the affected suburbs to be prudent during this evening’s peak time once their power is restored. Unless power is conserved there is the risk of further outages.

The faulty transformer is one of three servicing load at Penrose. One transformer was out due to routine maintenance. The other two were handling the load until an electrical fault in one caused the third transformer to trip.

A fault of this type within a transformer is rare and Transpower is investigating the fault.

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