{"id":120584,"date":"2025-11-06T06:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120584\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:26:09","slug":"far-north-region-plunged-into-darkness-after-substation-failure-cuts-electricity-for-23000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120584\/","title":{"rendered":"Far North region plunged into darkness after substation failure cuts electricity for 23,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere is no evidence of fire or extensive damage on the site,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOne of the breakers that feeds power into the substation appears to have failed and this has triggered the fire-suppression system and resulted in the loss of supply to customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are hopeful that the 33kV switchboard damage is limited to this breaker. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re now working through required safety checks to see whether we can begin restoring power.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier, Top Energy said there had been what appeared to be \u201csubstantial equipment failure\u201d on the 33kV switchgear. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFire crews have been called to provide assistance in entering the building. We will provide an update when we have more information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Multiple people commented on how unfortunate it was for the power to go out around dinner time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">One woman said: \u201cTime to get the BBQ out early. In emergencies we can handle Peanut Butter and Jam sandwiches. Thankfully we have our small gas stove.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Another said: \u201cI\u2019m all for it \u2013 can\u2019t cook dinner, and my kids have appeared out of their rooms with no wifi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/news\/far-north-power-outage-cuts-electricity-to-more-than-23000-homes\/OUH7IKNXLRF65LGS7NMZCARCF4\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/news\/far-north-power-outage-cuts-electricity-to-more-than-23000-homes\/OUH7IKNXLRF65LGS7NMZCARCF4\/\">The same region was affected by a power outage<\/a> last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">The power went out about 3.40pm that day and disconnected customers north of Hikurangi, south of Mang\u014dnui and across the width of the North Island. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere is no evidence of fire or extensive damage on the site,\u201d the post said. \u201cOne of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[78902,74,138,10666,65271,1686,15972,42343,528,2082,296,5503,130,111,139,529,69,384,34864,10112,381,26267,42961,131],"class_list":["post-120584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-78902","tag-after","tag-business","tag-cuts","tag-darkness","tag-electricity","tag-equipment","tag-failure","tag-far","tag-for","tag-into","tag-knocked","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-plunged","tag-power","tag-region","tag-substantial","tag-substation","tag-than"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120584","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=120584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}