In 1998 the Auckland CBD lost power for two weeks and had continualled rolling outages for a further six weeks after three cables supplying power to the city all failed in Unison.

In 2007 there was another massive power outage after strong winds took down one power pylon cable and crippled the entire city’s supply.

Now in 2009 we have three transformers fail in unsion and knock out a large proprotion of the city.

More than a decade after the first major incident of this type it still fails me how the same scenario is repeating on a semi regular basis. Surely something as vital as power should be built with redundant supply lines.

Only in NZ?