Jan 29, 2008

Threats to North Island Electricity Supply

The NZ Herald has picked up on the risks to electricity supply in the North Island this winter.

"Basically we have run down our reserve generating capacity to the extent that not much has to go wrong to put us in a very dicky situation,"

The Hive assumes that Energy Minister David Parker is learning some rain dances. The power going out in Auckland a few months before the general election will be a bad look for the Government. Rather than rain dances we would be accelerating plans for a gas powered power station close to Auckland.