The finger pointing continues in a bid to shift the blame over a major power-cut in the North Island
The finger pointing continues in a bid to shift the blame over a major power-cut in the North Island
10 August 2021
About 20-thousand homes were left in the dark last night after Transpower asked providers to ease network demand.
It resulted in an outage - and the Energy Minister's now inquiring if the move was deliberate to keep power prices high.
Genesis Energy's Chief Executive claims the company's portfolio showed there was capacity to manage the demand.
Marc England says they couldn't fire up an extra generator by the time the risk was apparent.
He says Genesis can't ramp up a unit that takes six to ten hours in an hour and a half - and by the time peak load hit - it was too late.
But Transpower's head of grid delivery John Clark says it issued the first notice at six-am.
He says during the day it was escalated to a warning notice... and then finally to a grid emergency around five o'clock.
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