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Upper South Island Loads

Power system loads in the South Island north of Waitaki Valley (Zone 3) are displayed on this page to give power companies loading information across the zone.

This information is updated every five minutes. Due to the location of recording equipment at some sites, the load split between retailers for these zones is indicative only.

The historical Zone Load Peaks are winter and summer seasonal values and are reset at the change of seasons on 20 October and 10 May.

The graph of the previous week’s USI load, VSAT load limit and USI Generation, has been removed. If this information is still required please contact system.operator@transpower.co.nz

Updated:
Upper South Island Load Data
Zone 3 Real Time VSAT Limit1212.7 MW
Zone 3 Load860.111 MW
Zone 3 Margin352.589 MW
Zone 3 AUVLS enabledNo
Electricity Ashburton124.3 MW
Marlborough Lines54.4 MW
Buller Electricity2.6 MW
Network Tasman92.99 MW
Alpine Energy Ltd89.15 MW
Mainpower91.7 MW
Orion404.79 MW
Westpower11.88 MW
Updated:
Top South Island Load Data
GZ 9 Real Time VSAT Limit298.9 MW
GZ 9 Load167.78 MW
GZ 9 Margin131.12 MW
GZ 9 AUVLS enabledNo
Marlborough Lines53.5 MW
Buller Electricity2.6 MW
Network Tasman92.58 MW

Latest Zone Load Graphs

Zone 3 Load (Upper South Island)

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GZ 9 Load (Nelson)

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Historical Zone Load Peaks

Top 10 now reflects Summer daily peaks.
Zone 3 LoadDate
1148.01122/10/2020 10:00
1099.29127/01/2021 15:55
1072.70230/09/2020 08:15
1058.17116/10/2020 07:45
1057.88115/10/2020 08:10
1047.83229/09/2020 08:15
1045.81126/01/2021 17:30
1045.31214/10/2020 17:55
1038.65201/10/2020 08:15
1033.40816/09/2020 07:45
GZ9 LoadDate
228.01216/09/2020 07:55
226.74211/09/2020 08:25
226.33208/09/2020 08:00
225.12230/09/2020 08:20
224.00229/09/2020 08:55
221.94201/10/2020 08:15
220.22209/09/2020 07:50
219.90215/09/2020 18:20
219.15210/09/2020 08:05
218.56218/09/2020 08:30