2007 Northpower News
Leo Glamuzina retires from NEPT
Leo Glamuzina, former member of the NEPT (Northpower Electric Power Trustee) (far right), with (from the left) Norhtpower Chariman Warren Moyes, Mary Glamuzina and NEPT Chairman Erc Angelo at a ceremony to farewell Leo and acknowledge his service to the industry and the Whangarei and Kaipara electricity consumers.
Northland Electricity Helicopter Appeal - only one week to go!
Eight weeks into the 2007 Electricity Rescue Helicopter Appeal Northlanders have raised $94,900. That’s $5,000 more than at the same time during last year’s Appeal.
ConsumerLine October 2007
In this issue of ConsumerLine learn how dangerous trees can be when they come into close contact with power lines; learn about Electrical safety and read some interesting storm stats.
Northland Electricity Helicopter Appeal Update
Eight weeks into the 2007 Electricity Rescue Helicopter Appeal Northlanders have raised $94,900. That’s $5,000 more than at the same time during last year’s Appeal.
Come on board Northland…the 2007 Electricity Rescue Helicopter Appeal is now on.
Joint sponsors, Northpower and Top Energy have put down the challenge for Northlanders to come on board and once again support this world-class emergency rescue service.
Thanks from Northpower
The uninterrupted supply of electricity can not be guaranteed 24 hours a day. Vehicles can hit poles, equipment can fail, and trees can fall on lines. As we have seen, the weather can wreak havoc particularly with trees, causing severe damage to the network.
Northpower lineman on the road to recovery
The Northpower lineman who received an electric shock while working on low voltage power lines last week is now on the road to recovery.
Seven stormy days
On Tuesday Northpower resumed a more normal level of operation. The focus was put on worked that required follow up after most of the known storm faults had been cleared.
Northpower lineman receives electric shock
At 10am today a Northpower lineman received an electric shock while working on low voltage power lines.
Northpower Electricity Supply Situation 8:30am
With all available staff including our remote teams from as far a field as Wellington working round the clock during the weekend we managed to get all main network lines operational by Saturday night. Field staff have been working to near exhaustion everyday since last Tuesday.
Northpower Electricity Supply Situation 9am
The situation is improving rapidly. This was a major storm and has caused widespread outages. The majority of damage has been caused by trees close to lines bringing down poles and wires which are difficult to access.
Northpower Electricity Supply Situation 11am
The situation continues to improve dramatically. We currently have 995 customers still affected by Northpower line faults and 800 individual customer faults.
Northpower Electricity Supply Situation 4:30pm
The situation has improved very significantly so far today. The majority of damage has been caused by trees close to lines bringing down poles and wires which are difficult to access.
Northpower Electricity Supply Situation
Northpower is concentrating on main circuits to get as many people back on as soon as possible. Unfortunately this means that smaller areas and single customer faults will take longer to get to.
Northpower Annual Report out now
This year ended with a strong financial result and saw a number of strategic milestones achieved. Financial targets were exceeded with net profits increasing by $2.7M (22%) on the previous year to $14.7M. This significant gain was due to growth on the electricity network as well as increased contracting activity.
Power cuts and electrical medical equipment
Northpower is experiencing an increasing number of calls during faults regarding customers who have electrical medical equipment. While some have been genuine, others have proven to be false or hoax calls, and have caused Northpower concern.
Northpower Ltd purchases Perth based electrical contracting company
Northland owned and operated Northpower Ltd, announced today that it has purchased West Coast Energy, an emerging Perth based electrical contracting company.
$345,000 - a record amount for the Electricity Helicopter Appeal
During a breakfast for Northland’s ‘helicopter heroes’, Electricity Rescue Helicopter joint sponsors , Northpower and Top Energy, presented the Northland Emergency Services Trust (NEST) with a cheque for $345,377.98 – the largest amount ever raised during any public appeal for helicopter service.
ConsumerLine April 2007
In this issue of CustomerLine you’ll find details of improvements to our Network; how much we raised for the 2006 Electricity Rescue Helicopter Appeal and details of growth limit zone for trees near power lines.
Northpower $6.5 million dollar line charge holiday
The Northpower ‘line charge holiday’ is here. Northpower will again, provide all consumers connected to its network with a line charge holiday, which this year totals 6.5 million dollars.
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