Vector Network News for the week ending 7 August 2016

EV chargers helping the environment

Vector’s electric vehicle charging stations continue to be used regularly. Since we began installing chargers in November 2015, we have served 31.01 MWh of electricity, potentially saving as much as 41,217.68 kilograms of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere1.

Here are the stats for the past week.

Weekly Rapid Charger Totals
Hobson Street Newmarket Silverdale Greenlane
Charging Sessions (average per day) 11 13 7 7
Energy Consumed (Mwh) 0.62 0.22 0.32 0.30
Durations of charge (average minutes) 30.4 11.6 19.2 23.2

The busiest station this week was Newmarket with 91 charges.

Average Number of charging sessions this week.

39.00 Sessions

Average Length of charging session this week.

20.83 Minutes

Megawatt hours consumed this week

1.47 Mwh

[1] The average electric car can drive 5,754 km on every MWh of electricity served. And on average, an average medium sized petrol car emits 0.231kg CO2 emissions per km.

Network summary for week ending 7 August 2016

Electricity

Our crews were asked to isolate the power supply for safety at three house fires in Newton, Avondale and Northcote during the week.

There were five car v pole incidents over the past week; two incidents in Kumeu, and accidents in Manurewa, Glen Eden and Clevedon.

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