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The 1998 Auckland power crisis was an event that occurred in the Auckland, New Zealand Central Business District. The area suffered a five-week long power outage in 1998.

At the beginning of 1998, almost all of downtown Auckland received electricity from the supplier Mercury Energy via only four power cables, two of them 40-year old oil-filled cables that were past their replacement date. One of the cables failed on 20 January, possibly due to the unusually hot and dry conditions, another on 9 February, and due to the increased load from the failure of the first cables, the remaining two failed on 19 February and 20 February, leaving the central business district (except parts of a few streets) without power.

Queen Street, Auckland was almost deserted for the first few days, as few businesses could operate. Some brought goods out onto the street to sell, but heavy rain in the first week made that impractical. Generators were brought in from around the country to power essential services and some businesses. These made Queen Street a very noisy place and thus deterred customers. Some businesses estimated that the outage cost them at least NZD 60,000 per week.

The event became an international media spectacle. The story often was exaggerated (or embellished) when it was reported overseas, giving the impression most of the city or even the entire island was without electricity.

It took five weeks before an emergency overhead cable was completed to restore the power supply to the Central Business District. For much of that time, about 60,000 of the 74,000 people who worked in the area in 1998 worked from home, or from relocated offices in the suburbs. Some businesses relocated staff to other New Zealand cities, or even to Australia. Most of the 6,000 apartment dwellers in the area had to find alternative accommodation.

See also

• 2006 Auckland Blackout

External links

• Detailed write up by Peter Gutmann
• CNN article about the outage
• Final report of the Ministerial Inquiry into the Auckland Power Supply Failure

The 1998 Auckland power crisis was an event that occurred in the Auckland, New Zealand Central Business District. The area suffered a five-week long power outage in 1998.

At the beginning of 1998, almost all of downtown Auckland received electricity from the supplier Mercury Energy via only four power cables, two of them 40-year old oil-filled cables that were past their replacement date. One of the cables failed on 20 January, possibly due to the unusually hot and dry conditions, another on 9 February, and due to the increased load from the failure of the first cables, the remaining two failed on 19 February and 20 February, leaving the central business district (except parts of a few streets) without power.

Queen Street, Auckland was almost deserted for the first few days, as few businesses could operate. Some brought goods out onto the street to sell, but heavy rain in the first week made that impractical. Generators were brought in from around the country to power essential services and some businesses. These made Queen Street a very noisy place and thus deterred customers. Some businesses estimated that the outage cost them at least NZD 60,000 per week.

The event became an international media spectacle. The story often was exaggerated (or embellished) when it was reported overseas, giving the impression most of the city or even the entire island was without electricity.

It took five weeks before an emergency overhead cable was completed to restore the power supply to the Central Business District. For much of that time, about 60,000 of the 74,000 people who worked in the area in 1998 worked from home, or from relocated offices in the suburbs. Some businesses relocated staff to other New Zealand cities, or even to Australia. Most of the 6,000 apartment dwellers in the area had to find alternative accommodation.

See also

• 2006 Auckland Blackout

External links

• Detailed write up by Peter Gutmann
• CNN article about the outage
• Final report of the Ministerial Inquiry into the Auckland Power Supply Failure

1998 Auckland power crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1998 Auckland power crisis was an event that occurred in the Auckland, New Zealand Central Business District. The area suffered a five-week long power outage in 1998.

BBC News | Asia-Pacific | Auckland blackout sparks people power
Friday, March 20, 1998 Published at 08:05 GMT World: Asia-Pacific Auckland blackout sparks people power Protesters want power...electricity and influence

CNN - Power outage hits Auckland hours after crisis declared over ...
... Power outage hits Auckland hours after crisis ... 1998 Related sites: Note: Pages will open in a new browser window. Mercury Energy. CBD Cable fault updates. City of Auckland - official site Public Meeting to discuss power crisis

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All four electrical power cables supplying the Central Business District failed on 20 February 1998, causing the 1998 Auckland power crisis. It took five weeks before an emergency ...