Grid infrastructure incidents recorded in New Zealand, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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A fire broke out at a two-storey Vector electrical substation on McNab Street, Penrose, Auckland, on 5 November 2026. Fire and Emergency New Zealand was alerted at 3.24pm and sent 12 crews, three aerial appliances and three special appliances. Crews found the...
A transformer fire in Auckland, New Zealand, injured three workers and cut local power, according to a Stuff report published on 5 November 2026. Only the headline and summary were available when this entry was prepared. The equipment involved, the cause, 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...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
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...
A transformer at the Underwood substation, near Lorneville in Southland, caught fire at about 11.30am on 7 November 2021. Fire and Emergency New Zealand said smoke was seen coming from the site, and crews from Invercargill and Wallacetown attended with...
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 17 February 2019, a transformer box at the intersection of Ranui and Pah Streets in the Matua area of Tauranga caught fire. According to the Power Co website, properties in the area lost power at around 1pm. A resident reported heavy smoke and flames...
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...
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