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Demand shoots up for big game
Demand shoots up for big game
Electricity demand shot up for Sunday morning’s big All Blacks game against France.
The graph shows a typical Sunday morning (blue line) with the red line depicting demand over Sunday morning. It spikes at 8am and again during half time when kettles were boiled and espresso machines turned on.
Network summary for week ending 18 October 2015
Electricity
Crews were kept busy with ten car v pole incidents during the week in Avondale, Kuneu, Remuera, South Head, Mangere, Papatoetoe, Manurewa, Matakana, Browns Bay and Kelston. There was also a car v pillar incident in Papatoetoe.
Crews also attended six house fires to isolate the electricity supply so fire service personnel could work safely in Mangere (2), Epsom, CBD, Papakura and Pakuranga.
Gas
Damage was caused to our networks in Gisborne, Howick, Gulf Harbour, Orakei and Hauraki.
Shorts
• Vector owns over 18,000 kilometres of overhead and underground lines in the greater Auckland area, and 12,752 of gas pipe lines, almost half of which supply gas to Auckland.
• Vector, proud sponsor of the Arena.
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