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#289051 9-Aug-2021 20:21

I just seen this Tweet which is kind of alarming:

Found confirmation on Transpower's website:

https://www.transpower.co.nz/sites/default/files/interfaces/can/CAN%20Low%20Residual%20Situation%204025411929.pdf

The TL:DR is there is less than 200 MW of capacity left in the North Island currently

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#2757430 9-Aug-2021 20:27

Power out in Otaki and other parts of Kapiti

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#2757435 9-Aug-2021 20:37

Load shedding occuring across the country.

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#2757436 9-Aug-2021 20:39

Power out in a small section of Aotea, Porirua too; however, that may be unrelated - I'd expect a larger area.

However, my sister (in Hamilton) has been impacted - her entire neighbourhood is out currently.

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#2757438 9-Aug-2021 20:44

Fire up that coal plant with the foreign coal she’ll be right , it’s been a mild winter really are the lakes empty?

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#2757439 9-Aug-2021 20:47

We're back on. First thing wife does is turn the kettle on :)

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#2757450 9-Aug-2021 20:51

i think we need more coal

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#2757452 9-Aug-2021 20:54

And yet our Electricity Authority thinks the system isn't broken.. *rolls eyes*

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#2757453 9-Aug-2021 20:54

Thankfully it never went off her, well not so far, even though we're inside the area on the map that Stuff is showing.on their website.

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#2757505 9-Aug-2021 20:56

Batman:
i think we need more coal

We sure need more of something. I think we have plenty of coal. Perhaps something to turn that coal into electricity.

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#2757506 9-Aug-2021 20:58

Technofreak:
Batman:

i think we need more coal

We sure need more of something. I think we have plenty of coal. Perhaps something to turn that coal into electricity.

We need the government to stomp on the generators with a fairly hard regulatory boot. Currently they have incentive to keep generation low and prices resultingly high.

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#2757509 9-Aug-2021 21:07

Current generation capacity

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#2757512 9-Aug-2021 21:11

That didn't last long. At least my wife has her cup of tea.

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#2757517 9-Aug-2021 21:18

Power Grid.

Bring back ripple control.
We can put car chargers on the same system :-) .
Grandads grid was smarter ?

Well our population has grown substantially over last 20Y.
More people more power consumption, so infrastructure needs to expand in line with that.

Huntly.
Perhaps Hamiltonians might want to take over the control room and send the power back south ?

I guess Northland is sweet with expansion of their own thermal generation ?

Could it be we don't lack generation as much as spot pricing is spiking so much companies are lothe to buy it ?
The reason that Aussie started putting Tesla Power Storage in place.

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#2757518 9-Aug-2021 21:20

You must be in the Flagstaff area if the WEL energy site is correctly showing the outages

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#2757521 9-Aug-2021 21:21

sbiddle:
Current generation capacity

So, we're not at capacity or demand has dropped significantly very recently.

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