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Penrose Substation - Power Outage

Penrose Substation - Power Outage Update
05 October 2014
At 2:10AM this morning a number of Transpower assets at our Penrose substation were tripped as a result of damage to some control cables due to a fire in a cable trench. This has caused an outage for around 85,000 consumers in the areas of Mt Wellington, Onehunga, Ellerslie, St Johns, Remuera and St Heliers.
Transpower has control of the site, we are working with Vector to progress restoration, in a coordinated manner. However, some areas will be more badly impacted by the fire and may take longer to restore, and Transpower will actively assist Vector in repairing or replacing any damaged parts of their network.

Penrose Outage Update
05 October 2014
At 2:10AM this morning a number of Transpower assets at our Penrose substation were tripped as a result of damage to some control cables due to a fire in a cable trench. This has caused an outage for around 85,000 consumers in the areas of Mt Wellington, Ellerslie and Penrose.
The cable trench fire is now out, and the Fire Service has handed control of the site back to Transpower. With full control of the site, we can now look to finalise our assessment of affected equipment and commence restoration to initial areas when safe to do so. Some areas more badly affected through the fire may take longer to restore.


Penrose Substation - Outage Update
05 October 2014
From about 2:10 AM this morning a number of Transpower’s assets at its Penrose substation were electrically tripped, causing an outage to consumers in and around Penrose, Mt Wellington and Ellerslie.
A fire in a cable trench may be implicated in the initial trippings in our network – and that fire has recently been brought under control. With the fire under control we will be able to assess damage to our equipment and determine restoration times.

Penrose Outage
05 October 2014
Transpower advises that there is currently a power outage affecting the Penrose, Mt Wellington and Ellerslie areas. We are presently investigating the incident to determine what has happened, but at this stage understand there may have been a fire on site at our Penrose substation.


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