Protecting New Zealand's energy infrastructure

Special structures designed to protect strategic objects from possible conventional or hybrid threats have been tested at the Gaižiūnai training ground in the Jonava district, the Ministry of Energy announced.

Protecting New Zealand's energy infrastructure

Improving the current system to better protect power lines from falling trees will protect the security of New Zealand’s electricity infrastructure, says Energy Minister Simon Watts. “Secure electricity lines are critical to electrifying New Zealand’s economy and delivering the resilient and reliable electricity supply we need to power economic growth,” Mr Watts says. “Cyclone Gabrielle and Cyclone Tam highlighted the vulnerability of our infras…