Vector Network News - the Future of Energy

Vector Network News - the Future of Energy

Vector’s Future of Energy will officially arrive on Friday morning at Otara’s Rongomai School, where the kids will help Energy Minister, Hon Simon Bridges flick the switch on New Zealand’s first Tesla Energy Powerwall battery.

Vector and its majority shareholder, the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust (AECT), launched the Future of Energy campaign last year, with 130 of Auckland’s most deserving families, schools and community groups winning a state-of-the-art Vector Solar power system with a Tesla Energy Powerwall battery.

On Friday morning, the first of those systems will be fully connected at Rongomai School. The Tesla Energy Powerwall battery will be installed next to a classroom, enabling the kids to monitor how it works and the impact it will have on the school’s power usage and cost.

Network summary for week ending 08 May 2016

Electricity

Five car v pole incidents in Epsom, Glen Innes, Manurewa (2) and Massey kept crews busy along with a motorbike v pole incident in Glen Innes.

Vector crews attended two house/building fires in Mangere and Papatoetoe. This was to isolate the electricity/gas supply for safety, as requested by the Fire Service.

Preliminary enquiries into an outage in Albany last week suggest that it was caused during routine maintenance.

Gas

Third party contractors caused damage to our networks in Glenfield, Epsom, Royal Oak and Mount Wellington.

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