Watch the space weather webinar and register for the Industry Exercise

Transpower have published the recording of our joint webinar on space weather and its potential impacts on Aotearoa’s power system.

This webinar is part of our mahi with Transpower, as the System Operator, to help the sector prepare for the Industry Exercise in May, which will simulate a hypothetical major space weather event.

The webinar introduces space weather, the potential impacts on the power system, and electricity market participants’ roles and responsibilities.

Watch the webinar recording

There is still time for electricity market participants to register for the Industry Exercise and we encourage all participants to get involved. It is an important opportunity to practise and test how you would respond to a major unexpected power system event.

Participating in the exercise will help your organisation:

• practise operational and communications processes for a high-impact event
• get familiar with System Operator processes and communications
• identify opportunities to strengthen how we work together during a major power system event.

Register for the Industry Exercise

There will be an exercise briefing on Tuesday 12 May 1.00-2.30pm on processes and expectations, before the exercise itself on 20-21 May.

We thank all organisations who are taking part. Your involvement will help strengthen sector‑wide preparedness and support national resilience across the motu.