{"id":110016,"date":"2025-10-31T04:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/110016\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:10:07","slug":"far-north-power-outage-cuts-electricity-to-more-than-23000-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/110016\/","title":{"rendered":"Far North power outage cuts electricity to more than 23,000 homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">Equipment failure at the Kaikohe substation was suspected but initial investigations by Top Energy crews on site showed no apparent issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">Instead, it appeared a fault has occurred on the 33 kV line to Mt Pokaka. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cUnfortunately, the primary protection didn\u2019t operate as expected which would have limited the outage to a localised area, so backup protection tripped the station, causing a wider outage,\u201d Top Energy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe will be investigating further, and we apologise for the inconvenience this has caused on a Friday afternoon heading into the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said the outage had not impacted its operations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">Health NZ confirmed generators at the Kait\u0101ia and Bay of Islands hospitals had kicked in, meaning they were able to operate as normal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">The Northern Advocate has contacted other emergency services to see whether they are impacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Equipment failure at the Kaikohe substation was suspected but initial investigations by Top Energy crews on site showed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[78902,74,10166,10666,1686,1667,528,6800,130,3805,111,43,139,529,69,25347,10112,131,61,78903,1339],"class_list":{"0":"post-110016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-78902","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-businesses","11":"tag-cuts","12":"tag-electricity","13":"tag-energy","14":"tag-far","15":"tag-homes","16":"tag-more","17":"tag-network","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-north","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-outage","24":"tag-power","25":"tag-than","26":"tag-to","27":"tag-unplanned","28":"tag-without"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}