Subj : Power restored after huge outage in South Eastern Coromandel
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Date : Mon Jun 17 2024 01:04 pm

By 1News Reporters
8:43am

Power has been restored to thousands of homes in Whangamata after wet and
windy weather caused a huge outage overnight.


Vector also restored power to parts of Auckland this morning as far north as
Wellsford following earlier outages.


PowerCo reported that over 7000 properties across the Coromandel and Bay of
Plenty region had unplanned outages this morning.


In a statement this afternoon, PowerCo said power was restored to more than
5000 properties at around 10.40am.


PowerCo's head of network operations, Caz Haydon, said the outage was caused
by equipment on the 33kV power line being damaged in wet and windy weather.
The affected powerline supplies Whangamata and the surrounding areas from
Waihi with power.


"I'd like to personally thank our customers in eastern Coromandel for their
patience and understanding as our crews worked to find the fault and then
make repairs and restore supply," Haydon said.


The battery energy story system (BESS) generator on the outskirts of
Whangamata supplied Whangamata's central business district with power during
the outage.


North Shore power outages
Earlier, there were power outages across multiple suburbs of Auckland's North
Shore.


Outages were widespread from about 7am across Albany and Browns Bay, from
Mairangi Bay to Long Bay as well as a large part of Muriwai.


Vector said power was restored shortly after 8am.

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