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New Zealand 9^th August 2011 North Island

Widespread power outage in the middle of winter - thousands affected

A widespread power outage which affected thousands of people around the country overnight was slowly being restored from late last night.

But exactly how it happened has left members of the public puzzled.

Electricity authorities announced that demand for power had reached "an all-time high", and they did not have enough generation in the system to maintain that demand.

Up to 20,000 households were plunged into darkness and, in some cases, left without heating after high winds brought down power lines and cold weather saw power usesurge beyond generation capacity.

Transpower NZ issued a note on its Facebook page telling customers that, as the manager of the power system (the system operator), it had asked distribution companies to reduce the load across the country.

"Different companies will do this in different ways. Some manage via load control on hot water, some manage via customer disconnections."

Without using Gas as a transitional power source to renewables this could happen in NSW

Its time to bring on PEP11 along with the likelihood of Carbon Capture and Storage making the gas Carbon Neutral

RogerD