Wel Networks said it repeatedly queried the order to cut load by a massive 20 per cent but Transpower was insistent. Hamilton-based lines company Wel Networks says it was erroneously instructed by Transpower to make massive cuts to the load on its network of “more than 20 per cent” on Monday night. However, the scale of the error claimed by Wel had not been made clear before Wel’s statement, which appears to highlight Transpower’s culpability for the power cuts. Dibley said Wel Networks “repeatedly questioned” Transpower regarding the volume of the load it had instructed the company to drop. That is despite its chief executive, James Stevenson-Wallace, announcing an investigation and saying it was “not acceptable” that the power cuts came without warning.

Source: Stuff August 11, 2021 01:19 UTC