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Contact peaker plant fault triggers morning power shortage

Generation shortfall forced grid operator Transpower to seek load control from lines companies.

Transpower issued a grid emergency notice this morning after the peaker plant failure.

NBR Staff Thu, 23 Jun 2022

A failure at Contact Energy’s Stratford peaker plant triggered a grid emergency notice from Transpower this morning as cold weather pushed up power demand.

At 7.58am, Transpower issued the notice to generators calling for more energy to be offered into the system because there was not enough

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