Million minute power cut?
A keyboard error played havoc with King Country Energy's supply reliability figures in February - already noteworthy thanks to a couple of major faults. A trip-out on the board's northern feeder
resulted in a supply loss of 99,000 customer minutes, but by the time the figures reached the board the keyboarding error had added another digit, that with one or two other outages said to be caused by unknown
causes, pushed the customer minutes lost due to this cause to over a million. As a result, the graph showing customer minutes lost in February looked a little like, in the words of chairperson Ken Street: "Pakistan's run rate". An embarrassed chief engineer Colin Martin submitted replacement pages for the March board papers, saying the incident had prompted him to raise his priority for tidying up the system for recording power outages. King Country Energy was recently on the end of some national publicity over a million dollar power bill for a business in Ohakune that had not even started operation - again the result of an input error.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 429, 24 March 1992, Page 5
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180Million minute power cut? Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 429, 24 March 1992, Page 5
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