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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Transpower
Clutha Upper Waitaki Lines Project
finalist
Network Initiative of the Year
New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards 2022
Transpower's Clutha Upper Waitaki Line Project delivered in 20 months an upgrade of the national grid that would have usually taken several summers.
Teams from Transpower, Electrix, ElectroNet and Ventia worked to future proof the lower South Island grid in a fast-tracked process that almost doubled the transmission capacity out of Otago and Southland. And they relied on a combination of careful planning and agile thinking to overcome challenges posed by remote, hard to access terrain, extreme weather conditions, land restrictions, supply issues and Covid-19 constraints.