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.
Sponsored by
Unison Networks and Transpower
Cyclone Gabrielle power restoration
winner
Network Initiative of the Year
New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards 2023
Unison and Transpower demonstrated collaboration and innovation to successfully restore power to the Hawke's Bay network, following Cyclone Gabrielle.
Recognising the dependency on electricity to enable the broader disaster response, power restoration to critical sites and urban areas was prioritised. Teams worked together to deploy creative solutions to utilise available assets in ways not been before in Aotearoa. Most of urban Napier and Hawke's Bay had power restored by the end of the first week.