News

Hydro Intake Clean-up

Earlier in the year we installed a new tool shed at the intake and took the opportunity to remove the old shed, an obsolete compressor building and other surplus materials from the site.

Hydro Generation

The main (Chinese) hydro generator is performing well following significant expenditure over the past two years repairing the penstock leaks between the intake and the stilling tank and replacing the main actuator shaft. We have also completed refurbishment of ...

Diesel Generation

A new Cummins 480KW diesel genset has been purchased to improve the reliability of the electricity supply at Milford. The main GM standby genset is in need of major refurbishment work and will be used sparingly over the next ...

New Main Village Switchboard

MSI is planning to install a new main switchboard to replace the main village board in the Diesel Powerhouse. This work will be scheduled to minimize disruption to electricity supply and will be completed over one day during November. ...

Load Growth

This winter we have experienced some very high electricity peak loads and the recently installed load monitoring system is proving valuable in understanding the load patterns. Some peaks have reached 480KW.

Load Control

The generation automated load control scheme has recently been commissioned and is working very well. This system measures load and available water and dumps discretionary heating load to prevent hydro outages occurring. When an outage occurs due to ...

Water Supply

The main supply pipe to the water storage tanks has recently been replaced with a new high pressure main from the Mitre Peak Lodge valve pit. The standby water supply pool was also recently cleaned out. MSI has ...

Cleddau Residential Area Development

As most of you will know DoC have put all plans for this development on hold pending the reinforcement of the Cleddau River stop bank. This follows the Opus report on the risks of flood damage. It ...

LPG Facility

The LPG tank facility has been placed on hold due to the delays to the new Cleddau residential development area but we are intending to install a 225kg bottle farm facility as an interim measure. Customers on the LPG ...

Milford Sound Lodge Utilities Trench

Many of you will have noted the construction activity to install power, water, waste-water, gas and telecommunications to the Lodge from the Cleddau Residential Area. This work is nearing completion and the Lodge should be connected to the Milford ...