Vector Network News for the week ending 10 July 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 served24.91 MWh of electricity, potentially saving as much as 33,109.00 kilograms of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere[1].

Here are the stats for the past week.

Weekly Rapid Charger Totals
Hobson Street Newmarket Silverdale
Charging Sessions (average per day) 11 11 12
Energy Consumed (Mwh) 0.53 0.33 0.49
Durations of charge (average minutes) 28.9 19.9 19.2

The busiest station this week was Silverdale with 84 charges.

Average Number of charging sessions this week.

35.14 Sessions

Average Length of charging session this week.

22.70 Minutes

Megawatt hours consumed this week

1.35 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 10 July 2016

Electricity

Vector crews were asked to attend two house/building fires in Massey and Warkworth last week.

Five car v pole incidents meant a busy time for Vector crews last week. These occurred in Greenlane, Waiheke Island, Mt Albert, Mangere and Torbay.

Gas

Third party contractors caused damage to our gas networks in Papakura.

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