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Asset Management

“Our vision is to become the best rural network in New Zealand”

Northpower Network is responsible for preparation and implementation of the companies Asset Management Plan, designed to achieve its strategic goals by focusing on levels of service, lifecycle asset-management planning and the resulting long term cash flow requirements.

The operations control centre, based in Whangarei, is attended 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Load pulses, alarms and indication from 19 of the Northpower owned 33/11 kV substations and 5 grid exit points are monitored continuously, with circuit breakers, street lighting and all load-shedding plant being under direct supervisory control.

Northpower has 53,000 electricity customers connected to its lines network over an area of some 5,700 square kilometers covered by the Whangarei and Kaipara District Councils in New Zealand.

The Company also owns the 5 megawatt (MW) Wairua hydro-electric power station near Titoki, contributing up to 24 of the 960 million units of electricity conveyed over Northpower’s network per year.

The maximum half hourly system demand on Northpower’s network is approximately 148 MW. The non-simultaneous peak demands at the five Transpower grid exit points are:

Maungatapere - 45 MW
Bream Bay - 43 MW
Dargaville - 12 MW
Maungaturoto - 17 MW
Kensington - 58 MW

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