{"id":9745,"date":"2024-05-09T13:04:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T01:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9745"},"modified":"2024-05-09T13:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T01:04:26","slug":"transpower-warns-of-possible-power-shortages-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9745","title":{"rendered":"Transpower warns of possible power shortages on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national electricity grid operator is warning of possible insufficient power generation to meet households&#8217; demand on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Transpower has issued a notice saying there was a risk that power generation and reserves would not meet demand between 7.30am-8.30am.<\/p>\n<p>It said if power generators could not provide enough electricity, Transpower would manage demand to avoid a grid emergency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The system operator may instruct the grid owner to disconnect feeders without further notice to connected parties,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>MetService has forecast\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/516361\/cold-start-to-day-with-main-centres-not-reaching-double-digit-temperatures\">temperatures to plunge overnight<\/a>, with Christchurch set to fall to -4 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, almost\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/business\/489503\/transpower-fined-150-000-for-2021-mid-winter-blackouts\">34,000 households lost power<\/a>\u00a0on one of the coldest nights of the year, as insufficient supplies were arranged for the surge in demand.<\/p>\n<p>An industry panel fined Transpower $150,000 for its role in the blackouts.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national electricity grid operator is warning of possible insufficient power generation to meet households&#8217; demand on Friday. Transpower has issued a notice saying there was a risk that power generation and reserves would not meet demand between 7.30am-8.30am. It said if power generators could not provide enough electricity, Transpower would manage demand to avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9747,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions\/9747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}