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More than three months after a region-wide power cut caused by a fallen Transpower pylon, Northland is getting a package to help it keep the lights on — including a $1 million fund to benefit ...
Transpower says important context was missing from this week’s announcement that it failed to act on an engineer’s advice ahead of the collapse of a pylon that left 88,000 Northland customers ...
Transpower said they currently have no way to pay compensation after a Northland power pylon collapse left thousands without electricity in June, and that may be a question for the contractor at ...
The Electricity Authority announced on Thursday it was lodging a formal complaint against Transpower, alleging the national grid operator "failed to adhere to good electricity industry practice" when ...
Transpower and its contractor Omexom will make a $1 million payment to projects benefiting Northland following the collapse of a power pylon earlier this year. The announcement was made in ...
Northland's power network is being zapped into action in the wake of the pylon collapse outage. In June, a contractor unfastened three legs of a pylon at once, putting around 88,000 homes and ...
The Electricity Authority's report in to a toppled pylon has found the collapse was entirely avoidable. The Transpower pylon north of Helensville fell - cutting power to 88,000 people in Northland ...
The pylon extracted Thursday was discovered by a Greek expedition in 1998. Retrieving it was a laborious process: For week, divers cleaned it of mud and scum, then they dragged it across the sea ...
Transpower is defending not compensating Northland businesses hit by last month's major power cut when a pylon fell over. The Northland Chamber of Commerce is accusing the grid operator of doing a ...
In this way, pylons are something to strive for but not to dive for. Last January, less than two minutes before halftime in the AFC divisional round, Browns receiver Rashard Higgins stretched for ...
A car has driven through Northland shopping centre in Preston sparking a major emergency response. Police and Ambulance ...
A power pylon that some residents said was sparking at the beginning of the Creek fire near Sylmar is owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, officials said Friday.