Planned outage at Waiotahe substation affecting Ōpōtiki, Waiotahe and Te Kaha areas
Transpower is carrying out annual maintenance work with local lines company Horizon Networks at the Waiotahe substation which supports a secure supply of power to the area.
This work will require an outage to work safely on at the substation, which will affect Ōpōtiki, Waiotahe, and Te Kaha on 6 April 6:30am - 6:30pm.
Note: This annual outage usually occurs around November, but was postponed to April 2025 to accommodate important project work that upgraded the local network in November 2024.
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