Power Planning Delays
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 15. The Electricity Advisory Council today recommended that planning be based on a schedule two years ahead of estimated requirements. In its annual report, tabled in Parliament, the council also said that construction should be advanced one year. Since it reported to the Minister of Electricity (Mr Shand) last September eVents had resulted in delays in delivery of equipment from overseas and in commencement of the Tongariro scheme. Those events gave emphasis to the council’s “repeated comment” on planning and construction. “In the schedule of commis-
sioning dates given in the Power Planning Committee’s report Kapuni, with an installed capacity of 150 1 mw., was expected to be commissioned in April, 1968. “No decision by the Government having yet been made on the use to which Kapuni gas will be put, attention to its replacement becomes not merely urgent but imperative,” said the council. SUPPLY PROBLEMS The council said problems of electricity distribution had not been solved. “To the best of our knowledge and belief nothing tangible has eventuated from either the committee comprising representatives of the Municipal Electricity Supply Authorities’ Association and the Electric Power Boards’ Association appointed in September, 1964, or from the committee appointed by the Electrical Supply Authorities’
Association following its 1965 conference,” said the council. All the evidence showed that with few exceptions reorganisation within the industry would not be achieved of the affected parties’ own volition, and that eventually legislation would be necessary. 134 ACCIDENTS "There is no room for complacency in the matter of electrical accidents,” the council said. For the year ended in March there were 134 electrical accidents, of which 16— three less than the previous year—were fatal. Within the industry there were 60 accidents, of which six (one more than the previous year) were fatal.
The council suggested greater education on the use and misuse of electricity and electrical appliances for all people who dealt with them.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31113, 16 July 1966, Page 3
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