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Electricity Demand Update
WINTER POWER TASKFORCE
Electricity Demand Update
Average savings for the weekend (3-4 May) were 3%. Weekend savings have been running well below weekday savings so far, with last weekend's (26-27 April) numbers averaging under 1%.
Seeing them trending towards weekday savings is good, said Winter Power Taskforce co-ordinator, Patrick Strange.
* Total consumption for Saturday was 88.1 GWh,
versus 89.9 GWh for the equivalent day last year.
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Total consumption on Sunday was 87.1 GWh, versus 88.8 GWh
last year. Importantly, both days were less than the
previous weekend, despite the cooler weather over some of
the country.
* Hydro storage at midnight last night (Sunday 4 May) was 1983 GWh - only 65% of average, but up from 1944 the day before.
Savings to-date are:
Date Conservation Effort 2003 Demand (GWh) 2002
Equivalent Demand (GWh)
Sat 26 April 1.0%
88.68 89.84
Sun 27 April 0.7% 88.55 87.51
Mon 28
April 3.1% 98.62 102.32
Tue 29
April 3.0% 99.94 103.33
Wed 30 April 3.2% 98.70 102.88
Thurs 1 May 3.2% 98.60 100.0
Fri 2
May 3.6% 98.5 99.9
Sat 3 May 2.9% 88.1 89.9
Sun 4
May 3.1% 87.1 88.8
Daily demand information will be updated at 12 pm each day at http://www.winterpower.org.nz
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