The primary reason I believe why Auckland(lumped in with the far north) lags behind the target rate to save electricity is due to the frequent rainfall here-In Christchurch,most eastern regions,Wellington,BOP have had very low rainfall compared to Auckland and even all these regions sunshine tallies are up significantly on the Auckland readings including Taranaki and the Waikato.
Even the temperature(apart from night time generally) has been lower than even Wellington in the last year especially-Probably the only area generally (colder) and marginally wetter is probably Southland and SE Otago.
I don't use the drier myself and even dry clothes inside if need to be but there can be seen a reason behind Aucklands lower savings.
What are some other views on this topic?
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Michael
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NZstorm
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Did'nt we go through all this about 10 years ago.
There is no responsibility on Auckland (or anywhere else) to conserve
electricity. We use it and pay for the privilege. If the people who are responsible for supplying electricity can't do there job right, thats there problem.
From memory, the last power crises eased as we went through winter.
Winter rainfall kept the hydro scheme stable untill the milder wetter spring northwesters.
There is no responsibility on Auckland (or anywhere else) to conserve
electricity. We use it and pay for the privilege. If the people who are responsible for supplying electricity can't do there job right, thats there problem.
From memory, the last power crises eased as we went through winter.
Winter rainfall kept the hydro scheme stable untill the milder wetter spring northwesters.
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Skywatcher
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Do the savings calculations allow for the weather at all ?
The winterpower.org.nz website just says that the demand on Friday 9th was 4.7% less than "the equivalent day last year". The regional savings are based on a week but that would still be misleading if it's simply based on power use.
Using Heating Degree Days with a base of 12C, the value I get here for the first 9 days of May 2002 was 20.2 but this year it was 24.7 which means that the savings are being achieved when more heating is required ! (April was 45 last year, 75 in 2003 !)
If Auckland had a mild, dry week last year (unlikely, I know
) then a simple comparison isn't very helpful.
Cheers,
Steven
The winterpower.org.nz website just says that the demand on Friday 9th was 4.7% less than "the equivalent day last year". The regional savings are based on a week but that would still be misleading if it's simply based on power use.
Using Heating Degree Days with a base of 12C, the value I get here for the first 9 days of May 2002 was 20.2 but this year it was 24.7 which means that the savings are being achieved when more heating is required ! (April was 45 last year, 75 in 2003 !)
If Auckland had a mild, dry week last year (unlikely, I know
) then a simple comparison isn't very helpful.Cheers,
Steven
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Michael
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Manukau heads obs
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yes, auckland does get lots of showers....
but rain totals for the whole month have been less than average lately (i.e for april)
but then april is a month that can be real dry or quite wet, so the average is only the average of the extremes,. and you are not likely to get average rainfall anyway....
as for power savings, then maybe the colder parts of the country, where more heating by electricity, i why more savings:
i.e less heating my electricity
in the auckland area, heatiny by electricity is not generaly needed until june....
thoughts?
but rain totals for the whole month have been less than average lately (i.e for april)
but then april is a month that can be real dry or quite wet, so the average is only the average of the extremes,. and you are not likely to get average rainfall anyway....
as for power savings, then maybe the colder parts of the country, where more heating by electricity, i why more savings:
i.e less heating my electricity
in the auckland area, heatiny by electricity is not generaly needed until june....
thoughts?
