Network Initiative of the Year
This category celebrates excellence in a network business where an initiative delivers outstanding results. This could be a success story about anything whether it is innovative asset management, engineering, IT system development, project management, a new energy initiative or customer focus.
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Counties Power
Pokeno Power Project
finalist
Network Initiative of the Year
New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards 2021
From a sleepy village of fewer than 150 inhabitants to a small town and industrial hub ripe for even further expansion, the 'boom town' of Pokeno exploded from the rolling hills of rural northern Waikato.
An ambitious project, the largest in the Company's 95-year history, was undertaken to construct an indoor substation and associated feeders in the heart of the community - and in record time - to meet the needs of this rapidly expanding neighbourhood of residential, commercial and industrial power users.