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Speaker 1: Bid Armstrong is the GM for network at our local

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Speaker 1: lines company, EA Networks. Morning. How have you guys been

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Speaker 1: preparing for today?

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Speaker 2: We have been doing some work to get ready. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so we've been been just obviously monitoring the word class

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Speaker 2: and getting ready for what we think's coming, which is,

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Speaker 2: you know, owens will start hit the network on the

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Speaker 2: foddles around of it now and right across the network

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Speaker 2: and probably be dying down to more normal levels of

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Speaker 2: wind by about four o'clock.

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Speaker 1: But relatively confident in the sense, am I correct and

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Speaker 1: saying we have one of the most resilient networks in

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Speaker 1: the country.

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Speaker 2: Not the most resilient, because we've got quite a lot

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Speaker 2: of ural areas and we still have about two thirds

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Speaker 2: of our network is still overhead lines. You'll find some

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Speaker 2: small city networks like in Vicago or Nelson, one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent underground and they therefore they're quite quite resilient. So

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Speaker 2: when you've got underground cables, they don't get affected by

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Speaker 2: the wind and the.

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Speaker 1: Tramping around with each other year. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Right, but we've got as I said, we've got a

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Speaker 2: third of end at work is underground, and that's been

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Speaker 2: as a result of investment over more than twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: five thirty years where we've taken urban areas that were

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Speaker 2: ready to be replaced and turned them into underground cable

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Speaker 2: and progressive. We're still working on that, but the near

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Speaker 2: ins and sight will probably finish that in about eight years.

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Speaker 1: So those living rurally should they be prepared for an

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Speaker 1: outage more than those living in town.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's absolutely true. So most of our area

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Speaker 2: or network is supplied by overhead lines, and all sorts

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Speaker 2: of things will affect those and whether like this, you

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Speaker 2: can expect some equipment breckages on a network, or trees

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Speaker 2: been blown down or blown into the lines.

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Speaker 1: And would you go out and fix anything in these

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Speaker 1: conditions or do you wait till it dies down?

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Speaker 2: We first responders go out and they make safe so

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Speaker 2: they're driving around looking for lines that are on the

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Speaker 2: ground that need to be isolated on earth down so

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Speaker 2: it's safe for anyone coming along. And just to pop

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Speaker 2: the public safety message in while we're there, if you

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Speaker 2: come across lines on the ground, you need to stay

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Speaker 2: well away from them because they could still be live

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Speaker 2: and dangerous. And just just cally a networks and let

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Speaker 2: us know where it is and we'll come and do

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Speaker 2: something about it. So after the first responders are out there,

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Speaker 2: we can't go and start rebuilding the lines and putting

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Speaker 2: the power back on until the winds get down to

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Speaker 2: a safe level.

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Speaker 1: So I wouldn't want to be up at one of

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Speaker 1: those buckets we have lost on the trust me on that.

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Speaker 2: So we do keep our people safe, but we'll be

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Speaker 2: following on as the wind dies down, it's going to

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Speaker 2: move across the network. Will be following along and getting

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Speaker 2: stuff back on as soon as we can.

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Speaker 1: Should the power go out, do you want to hear

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Speaker 1: from us or do you already have automated systems in

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Speaker 1: place where you know?

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Speaker 2: We know we do have automated systems and they tell

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Speaker 2: us about whole feeder is going off, that's and that

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Speaker 2: sort of thing, but there will be parts of that

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Speaker 2: we don't have measurement, and we don't know the power

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Speaker 2: has gone off. So if your power has gone off,

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Speaker 2: the first thing to do was we go to our

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Speaker 2: website and in the top right corner there's a button that'

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Speaker 2: says current outages. Press on that and it gives you

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Speaker 2: a map and it shows you all the areas that

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Speaker 2: we currently know about. If you'll you can't see your

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Speaker 2: area on there. Then you call on into the office

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Speaker 2: and on the a new Wix line and we'll take

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Speaker 2: that down.

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Speaker 1: And you appreciate the heats up. Jumping on the website

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Speaker 1: this morning could be well worth it because we were

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Speaker 1: talking with Jess a couple of weeks back about that

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Speaker 1: free notification service, so you can get a text straight

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Speaker 1: to your phone if something happens.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, So you can register your power account to

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Speaker 2: us and we can then text you when the power

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Speaker 2: goes off with a predicted time that it might come back,

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Speaker 2: and then confirm with you that it has come back. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And so then if we think it's gone back on

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Speaker 2: and we've sent you that text and it's still not on,

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Speaker 2: that's your queue to call us back and say now

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Speaker 2: it's still a problem and we'll come and find out

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Speaker 2: because you can find what we call nested outages. So

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Speaker 2: we've fixed the upstream outage, but there might be another

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Speaker 2: breakage between that point and you and we won't know

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Speaker 2: about that. And then so you give us a pull

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Speaker 2: back and see another power stool off. So don't sit

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Speaker 2: in the dark or without your power and give us

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Speaker 2: see your back if things haven't haven't happened. If you've

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Speaker 2: got that text or the powder outage has gone from

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Speaker 2: our website, give us a callback and let us know