Incidents recorded in New Zealand across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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A wind turbine at Mercury's Tararua wind farm near Palmerston North caught fire on a Sunday evening. A member of the public alerted emergency services, who responded around 5pm with fire crews from Ashhurst and Palmerston North. The fire was contained to the...
On Tuesday 17 September 2024, an electric transformer caught fire outside the police station in Feilding, New Zealand. A person was taken to Palmerston North Hospital in a moderate condition. St John ambulance, a rapid response unit and an operations manager...
A fault at a substation on the national power grid cut supply across Tauranga and the wider Western Bay in October 2022. Powerco said 42,184 properties were affected. The same report also said 35,000 properties were affected by the outage, without explaining...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A wind turbine at Tararua Wind Farm 3 on the Tararua Range caught fire on a Wednesday afternoon in October 2021. The fire was visible from Palmerston North and Feilding. Owner Mercury was alerted by on-site contractor and operator Vestas, who said nobody was...
During routine maintenance switching at the Haywards substation in Lower Hutt, incorrect earthing was applied, causing an electrical arc flashover reported initially as an explosion, with a loud bang and smoke. Transpower stated no equipment caught fire and...
A Stuff headline reported that power had returned after a major outage across the Wellington region following a substation explosion. The article text was not available. The web address refers to train delays, but that detail is not in the headline, and the...
On a Wednesday morning, a transformer in Greenlane, central Auckland, New Zealand, caught fire. Fire crews found a large transformer fire impinging on a house and on trees beside it. The same report described other outages across Auckland and lower Northland...
On 5 October 2010, around midday, one of the four power distribution boards at Orcon's Northcote data centre in New Zealand failed. The equipment had to be replaced to restore services. Orcon's core network stayed operational, but some customers could not...
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