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Asia Pacific engineering consultancy Aurecon has been appointed to Transpower’s Engineering Consultants Design Panel, enabling Aurecon to bring its transmission expertise to the investment needed to strengthen and expand New Zealand’s national electricity transmission network.
The appointment enables Aurecon to support Transpower’s transmission programme, providing specialist capability across transmission lines, substations, protection and automation.
The appointment comes at an important time for New Zealand’s electricity system. Through Te Kanapu, Transpower is developing a long-term blueprint for the transmission network to 2050 and beyond, considering how rising electricity demand, new generation and a more electrified economy will shape future transmission investment.
Aurecon will combine strong local relationships and delivery capability with deep experience planning, designing and delivering major power infrastructure across New Zealand and the Asia Pacific to support Transpower’s programme.
"We are proud to work alongside Transpower in this next chapter, bringing the best of Aurecon’s people, ideas and experience to help shape and deliver New Zealand's grid."
Waning Chua, Principal, Energy – New Zealand, Aurecon
Transpower General Manager Grid Development Matt Webb said the Engineering Consultant Design Panel would give engineering firms greater visibility of upcoming work, providing more confidence to recruit and develop people, build expertise and invest in the systems and training needed to maintain that capability.
“New Zealand’s electricity system will need significant investment as demand grows and the country electrifies. We need to make sure the engineering capability required to design and deliver that infrastructure grows with it,” Webb said. “Giving our engineering partners better visibility of future work will help them plan and invest in the specialist expertise the sector will need.”
Waning Chua, Aurecon’s Energy Market Leader said, “Technology, electrification and new forms of generation are changing what is possible for New Zealand and challenging us all to think differently about how we deliver the energy system of the future. We are proud to work alongside Transpower in this next chapter, bringing the best of Aurecon’s people, ideas and experience to help shape and deliver the grid New Zealand will need for the decades ahead.
“For us, this appointment is more than delivering projects. It is a commitment to work together to help shape a resilient energy system for our communities, our whenua and the generations that follow.”
Aurecon’s Panel Delivery Director and Principal for Transmission and Distribution in New Zealand, James Herbert noted, “This is such an exciting time to be part of the electricity industry in New Zealand. We are really pleased to be able to support Transpower, our teams are raring to go and can't wait to get started.”
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