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Camberley Substation's Boosted Capacity Helps Power Local Growth

Camberley Substation's Boosted Capacity Helps Power Local Growth

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The substation upgrade is one of four planned for Hawke's Bay under Unison's 10-year Asset Management Plan. Following Cyclone Gabrielle, Unison's Awatoto, Tutira and Esk substations are also lined up for upgrades to improve resilience. More >>
Unison's Safe Sparks Goes Digital: Bringing Electricity Safety Education To Schools In A New And Interactive Way
Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 9:47 am | Unison
Electricity distributor, Unison Networks (Unison) is launching a digital safety education programme to increase awareness of safety around electricity within its communities through a new animated and interactive online programme for schools. ... More >>
Tuatahi First Fibre To Acquire Unison Fibre Offering Customers Greater Choice
Wednesday, 25 October 2023, 3:35 pm | Unison
Tuatahi First Fibre to deliver greater choice and hyper-fast speed to internet users in Hawke's Bay, Taupo, and Rotorua through the purchase of Unison Fibre. Tuatahi First Fibre, the leading central North Island fibre network provider, will expand ... More >>
Unison Asks Connected Hawke's Bay Customers To Conserve Power As It Continues Restoration Efforts
Thursday, 16 February 2023, 3:07 pm | Unison
Unison is asking reconnected customers in Hawke's Bay to conserve power use as it continues restoration efforts. This is due to limited power supply coming into the region from Transpower's damaged Redclyffe substation. Unison has now restored ... More >>
Concerted Restoration Progress Sees Most Customers Connected
Sunday, 16 April 2017, 6:12 pm | Unison
Sunday 16 April 2017, 6pm – Unison crews have restored power to 99 percent of customers who lost electricity following Cyclone Cook. More >>
Restoration Progress Sees More Customers Connected
Saturday, 15 April 2017, 6:57 pm | Unison
Saturday 15 April 2017, 4.55pm – Unison crews have restored power to over 14,000 of the 15,000 customers who lost electricity following Cyclone Cook. More >>
Crews Still Making Good Progress
Saturday, 15 April 2017, 1:11 pm | Unison
Saturday 15 April 2017, 12.27pm – Unison crews have restored power to around 600 customers so far today and expects to restore most customers by 6pm tonight. More >>
Unison Crews Out Working to Restore Power
Saturday, 15 April 2017, 12:59 pm | Unison
Saturday 15 April 2017, 8.57am – Unison crews have been deployed this morning and are making steady progress towards restoring approximately 2,000 customers without power as a result of Cyclone Cook. More >>
Unison Delighted Government Backs EV Highway
Thursday, 19 January 2017, 1:53 pm | Unison
Thursday 19 January, 2017 – Unison Group Chief Executive, Ken Sutherland, said the company is thrilled its project to create an EV highway between Taupo and Napier has been conditionally approved for funding from the Low Emission Vehicles Contestable ... More >>
Unison Wins National Line Mechanic Competition
Tuesday, 25 October 2016, 1:37 pm | Unison
Tuesday 25 October 2016 - Unison's Line Mechanics have been judged the best in the country yet again, with the Hawke's Bay team winning the national title for the second year in a row at the Connexis Line Mechanic Competition. More >>
Police and UnisonFibre Initiative
Monday, 10 October 2016, 10:29 am | Unison
Monday 10 October 2016 - Six Maraenui primary schools will take to the basketball court this Friday, as part of an ongoing initiative supported by UnisonFibre and local Police. More >>
Rotorua's First EV Fast Charger Kept Busy by EV Drivers
Monday, 3 October 2016, 1:57 pm | Unison
The rEVolution is Here: Rotorua's First EV Fast Charger Kept Busy by EV Drivers More >>
Customers Reconnected to Network Supply
Wednesday, 31 August 2016, 2:48 pm | Unison
Unison Networks today advised a large number of customers who had been relying on generated power had now been reconnected to usual network supply, following the worst storm-related damage the lines company had seen in over a decade. More >>
Power Restored for Nearly All Rural Hawke's Bay
Sunday, 14 August 2016, 10:36 pm | Unison
Power Restored for Nearly All Rural Hawke's Bay Customers in Time for the Weekend More >>
Rural Hawke's Bay - most will have power restored today
Thursday, 11 August 2016, 2:11 pm | Unison
Unison Networks has advised restoring power to customers in rural parts of Hawke's Bay was making good progress, with most expected to be restored to the distribution network by this evening. More >>
Taupo Plains – Unison Bringing in Generators
Wednesday, 10 August 2016, 11:13 am | Unison
Unison Networks today advised it is bringing in generators to help those customers who potentially face no power from the network for a couple of weeks, while Unison repairs the network. More >>
Taupo Plains - Power could be out for few weeks
Wednesday, 10 August 2016, 8:12 am | Unison
Unison Networks' has advised that some customers in the Taupo Plains could be without power for a few weeks, and therefore the Company was looking at alternative solutions. More >>
Power Restored for Some Rural Hawkes Bay Customers
Tuesday, 9 August 2016, 10:52 am | Unison
Power has been restored to about 70 customers in parts of Rural Hawke's Bay, Unison Networks has this morning advised. More >>
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