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**Sniper** · 13th June 2006, 13:47

Jesus its funny to watch these city folks cry cause they didnt have power.

**chanceyy** · 13th June 2006, 18:14

Originally Posted by Sniper

Jesus its funny to watch these city folks cry cause they didnt have power.

^5 Sniper .. it is pretty funny .. watching the news .. ppl down south still just getting on with it. The whole Geraldine still has no power .. aucklanders in newmarket crying over their lattes for being last to have their power restored yesterday

**Big Dave** · 13th June 2006, 19:34

Originally Posted by chanceyy

^5 Sniper .. it is pretty funny .. watching the news .. ppl down south still just getting on with it. The whole Geraldine still has no power .. aucklanders in newmarket crying over their lattes for being last to have their power restored yesterday

Of course the 40 people who they interviewed and said - 'yeah whatever' didn't make the news - the one or two dicks who were out of shape about it get the headlines.

Sniper - yeah whatever. I know how much my property values have escalated in the past 5 years - how's whoop-whoop doing?

**Phurrball** · 13th June 2006, 20:13

Plenty of power out in deepest Westieland!

My La Pavoni was still extracting beaut espresso, so I was able to proceed into the CBD caffeinated. Driving (In cage due to feral wind) was disturbingly easy with the traffic lights out! 'Twas good exercise getting up to the 16th floor of work...only to go and lurk at Motohaus when I was sent away an hour later. Butane powered soldering irons and the usual hand tools meant a few things were getting done there.

Apparently mobile espresso vans were doing a roaring trade in town

And BTW, almost all of Auckland's power comes from the Huntly thermal plant...so as much as the southerners would like to cut the cable, it wouldn't do much to Orcland.

(I understand the sentiment being a southerner myself...so sorry to shatter the myth!)

**Jonny Rotten** · 13th June 2006, 21:08

was there a power cut ????

**ratusratus** · 19th June 2006, 19:49

property prices?? oh my god what have those fuckers done to you

**Big Dave** · 19th June 2006, 21:57

Originally Posted by ratusratus

property prices?? oh my god what have those fuckers done to you

+$200,000 so far

**Lou Girardin** · 20th June 2006, 10:22

Originally Posted by Big Dave

+$200,000 so far

It's gone up by 30% in Palmy too, that makes about $500.00 capital gain.

**Jantar** · 20th June 2006, 10:55

Originally Posted by Phurrball

And BTW, almost all of Auckland's power comes from the Huntly thermal plant...so as much as the southerners would like to cut the cable, it wouldn't do much to Orcland.

(I understand the sentiment being a southerner myself...so sorry to shatter the myth!)

Nice thought, but not quite correct. New Zealand's power supply is all interconnected by a grid system. Hamilton, Auckland and the far North use around a third, the rest of the North Island use a third, and the South Island is around a third. At present the peak demand is over 6000 MW, Huntly Otahuhu and Southdown supply almost 1500 MW, but that still leaves the northern region short by 500 MW.

Not only is the region short for its physical demand, but where does its reserve come from? For the least amount of security of supply there must be sufficient spinning reserve to cover the loss of any single unit. That means that the norther region needs 380 MW of spinning reserve. It can only get that amount by the addition of 380 MW of hydro plant, or another 1140 MW of traditional thermal plant. There isn't 380 MW of hydro river available up there, so the Northern region is short by at least 1640 MW from covering its own load.