Packing a punch despite its size, Twizel is a major tourist hub and has a thriving local community. To ensure this vibrant community continues to shine, reliable electricity is crucial. That's why we're thrilled to announce the completion of the upgraded Twizel village substation!
Hats off to our exceptional field services team for their tireless efforts over the past weekend to address a fault at Timaru Girls' High School. During routine testing, we identified an issue that required swift action, prompting our team to work diligently to replace a ring main unit and transformer.
Today, we gathered as a united team to mark a significant occasion – the 30th anniversary of the Alpine Energy brand! Our CEO, Caroline Ovenstone, shared the history of Alpine Energy, tracing it back to its beginnings in 1906 when the Timaru Borough Council contracted with Scott Brothers of Christchurch to provide electricity to the town.
A massive congratulations to the NETcon crew who participated in the Connexis Annual Connection event, hosted by PowerNet. During this 3-day competition, these skilled line mechanics and cable jointers demonstrated their expertise and the essential knowledge they use daily to keep the power flowing to homes and businesses in South Canterbury.
Last week our team undertook the enormous task of maintaining and upgrading our 33kv overhead lines that traverse the countryside from Temuka, all the way to our Geraldine sub-station. This section of overhead lines supplies electricity to over 2,600 households, businesses, and farms in the region so this project was critical with our end goal being to increase the resiliency of our network so that any future outages will be fewer in number and of shorter duration.