There was a power outage today across most of eastern Auckland and stretching into the central city. Having realised that we were all basically useless without our computers we went home early. The NZ Herald is now reporting that the power is mostly back on.

Apparently this whole thing was caused by the failure of one transformer at one sub-station. I amazes me that this should affect such a large area! Why is there no redundancy, even if (as in this case) one of the other transformers is down for maintenance? There should be backups to cope and even if an area goes off it shouldn’t affect half the city.

New Zealand still has a long way to go in getting to grips with this whole ‘electricity’ thing.

Not that I’m complaining about an afternoon off!

There was a power outage today across most of eastern Auckland and stretching into the central city. Having realised that we were all basically useless without our computers we went home early. The NZ Herald is now reporting that the power is mostly back on. Apparently this whole thing was caused by the failure of ...