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  - <button></button>Customer Commitments
    - <button></button>We engage with customers and communities to understand their needs
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    - <button></button>Our network services and solutions provide value to customers
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    - <button></button>Our network is future ready and sustainably operated
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    - <button></button>We minimise the impact of our assets and works on customers and communities
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  - <button></button>Community investment map
  - <button></button>Investing in your community's electricity network
  - <button></button>Reliable and resilient networks
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  - <button></button>Protecting our environment
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  - <button></button>The future of gas
    - <button></button>Our biomethane projects
    - <button></button>Put your waste to work
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  - <button></button>Our projects
    - <button></button>Delivering differently - our Coromandel fibre project
    - <button></button>Dot Harris - Community Relationships Advisor
    - <button></button>Eltham gas main renewal
    - <button></button>Feel that sun energy
    - <button></button>Feilding substation upgrade
    - <button></button>Fibre is good for you
    - <button></button>Gas network surveying
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    - <button></button>Inglewood south upgrade
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    - <button></button>Plastic fantastic
    - <button></button>Red means go
    - <button></button>Scheduling Tool adds efficiency to projects
    - <button></button>Successful repairs to critical gas pipelines
    - <button></button>Taupō Quay tower replacement
    - <button></button>Waitara electricity upgrade
    - <button></button>WBOP
    - <button></button>What a waste
    - <button></button>Computers for community
    - <button></button>Educating tamariki about protecting wildlife
    - <button></button>Electricity upgrade supporting Taranaki Base Hospital redevelopment
      - <button></button>New Taranaki Base Hospital cable
    - <button></button>Enterprise Resource Planning
    - <button></button>Falcon friendly transformers
    - <button></button>Feilding Crossarm Replacement
    - <button></button>Foodbank Drive To Support Our Communities
    - <button></button>Gas smart meter rollout
    - <button></button>Greerton Switching Station
    - <button></button>Hatricks River crossing
    - <button></button>Hunterville Upgrade
    - <button></button>Hutt Valley upgrade
    - <button></button>Improving customer experience
      - <button></button>Keeping customers informed
      - <button></button>Engaging with our communities
      - <button></button>Minimising outages in storms
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      - <button></button>Customer service recognised
    - <button></button>Improving how we manage our assets
    - <button></button>Improving the quality of our data
      - <button></button>Documenting our underground network
      - <button></button>Using data to find faults
      - <button></button>Our data quality improvements in 2021-22
      - <button></button>Our data quality improvements in 2020-21
    - <button></button>Indepth network view
    - <button></button>Inglewood upgrade
    - <button></button>Intelligent overhead line monitoring
    - <button></button>Investing in your future
    - <button></button>Keeping Colville connected
    - <button></button>Keeping our communities beautiful
    - <button></button>Levin cathodic protection upgrade
    - <button></button>Low voltage monitoring
    - <button></button>Maintaining power to Moturoa
    - <button></button>Matamata network upgrade
    - <button></button>Maungatautari and Horahora districts
    - <button></button>Meeting Greytowns growth
      - <button></button>Phase 3 January 2025
      - <button></button>Phase 1 Late 2020
      - <button></button>Phase 2 Late 2021
      - <button></button>Greytown technology upgrade
    - <button></button>Mobile substation
      - <button></button>Watch how it works
      - <button></button>Keeping Eltham powered
      - <button></button>Whanganui benefits from mobile substation
      - <button></button>Keeping rural Taranaki connected
      - <button></button>Mobile substation on the move
    - <button></button>Network operations centre
    - <button></button>New Plymouth CBD upgrade
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    - <button></button>Planning our work effectively
    - <button></button>Port of Tauranga substation
    - <button></button>Project Copperleaf
    - <button></button>Protecting customer data
    - <button></button>Putting power poles through their paces
    - <button></button>Remote area power supply
    - <button></button>Shoring up Coromandels power
    - <button></button>Strategic spares sorted
    - <button></button>Stratford
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    - <button></button>Supporting communities during COVID-19
    - <button></button>Sustainability at Powerco
      - <button></button>Sustainable Business Council commitment
    - <button></button>Teams gear getting new life
    - <button></button>Thinking differently about health and safety
    - <button></button>Tokoroa cable upgrade
    - <button></button>Triton substation rebuild
    - <button></button>Urenui
    - <button></button>Using data to find faults faster
    - <button></button>Vegetation management
      - <button></button>Managing trees near lines more efficiently
      - <button></button>Managing vegetation on our network 2021-22
      - <button></button>Managing vegetation on our network 2020-21
    - <button></button>Vehicle v pole tool
    - <button></button>Walton Road
    - <button></button>Whangamata BESS Project
    - <button></button>York Road reconstruction
    - <button></button>South Waikato National Grid Connection
      - <button></button>Connection Commissioned
      - <button></button>Stringing the lines
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      - <button></button>Blessing our mahi
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- <button></button>Safety
  - <button></button>Safety above ground
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    - <button></button>Powerco urges customers to prepare for strong weather
    - <button></button>Sparking a passion for STEM
    - <button></button>A holistic approach to sustainability
    - <button></button>Annual Delivery Report 2021 now available
    - <button></button>Crews continue to work to restore power to affected customers
    - <button></button>Customer service recognised
    - <button></button>Electric shock survivor warns of power line danger following horrific accident
    - <button></button>Falcon-friendly transformers
    - <button></button>Gas upgrade prepares Wellington for the future
    - <button></button>Greytown planned power outages to support commercial growth
    - <button></button>Internal talent picked for key Powerco electricity and gas operations roles
    - <button></button>Katikati outage
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    - <button></button>Keeping our communities beautiful
    - <button></button>Lighting up the Coromandel
    - <button></button>Look Up and Know What's Below when working around home this summer
    - <button></button>Look up in the orchard – Power lines can kill
    - <button></button>New South Waikato National Grid Connection a step closer
    - <button></button>Palmerston North upgrade continues
    - <button></button>Powerco announces Chief Executive Officer's departure
    - <button></button>Powerco appoints Chief Executive Officer
    - <button></button>Powerco engineer wins EEA Award
    - <button></button>Powerco keeps the power on and gas flowing for communities during COVID-19 Alert Level 4
    - <button></button>Powerco launches new gas public safety campaign
    - <button></button>Powerco Lights Up the Night
    - <button></button>Powerco managing electricity load - 7pm
    - <button></button>Powerco partners with EnergyMate
    - <button></button>Powerco proactively managing electricity load - 8:45am
    - <button></button>Powerco shoring up power supply in Coromandel
    - <button></button>Powerco supports its communities during COVID-19 Alert Level 4
    - <button></button>Powerco's response to Transpower request
    - <button></button>Public urged to report suspicious activity around power poles
    - <button></button>Recognition for orchard safety campaign
    - <button></button>Replant for Tomorrow makes Wairarapa debut
    - <button></button>Severe weather causes multiple outages and challenging conditions for crews
    - <button></button>Solar farm connects to Powerco's electricity network
    - <button></button>Taranaki teenage girls get taste of electricity industry
    - <button></button>Teams' gear getting new life
    - <button></button>Upgrading Taranaki's rural primary schools
    - <button></button>Crews working to reconnect customers – 4pm update
    - <button></button>Cyclone Gabrielle: Restoration efforts continue – 11:30am update
    - <button></button>Cyclone Gabrielle: Restoration efforts continue – 11:30am update
    - <button></button>Crews making progress despite challenging access issues – 4.30pm update
    - <button></button>Remaining customers expected to be reconnected by end of week – 4.30pm update
    - <button></button>Connecting communities through cyclone Fili
    - <button></button>Powerco issues warning as severe weather approaches
    - <button></button>Powerco managing electricity load
    - <button></button>Powerco working to reconnect customers following wild weather
    - <button></button>Powerco working to reconnect customers following wild weather
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  - <button></button>Industry Insights
    - <button></button>Biogas expertise - looking beyond our shores
    - <button></button>Climate resilience webinar
    - <button></button>CPP delivery insights
    - <button></button>Electricity AMP Update 2025
    - <button></button>Electricity demand flexibility - residential hot water control
    - <button></button>Grow to zero
    - <button></button>Installing EV fast chargers on a constrained grid
    - <button></button>Our electricity Asset Management Plan 2024 update
    - <button></button>Powerco automates regional wide-area vulnerability assessment
    - <button></button>Preparing for an electric future
    - <button></button>Residential hot water control trial insights
    - <button></button>Smart EV charging trial
    - <button></button>Smart mapping tool
    - <button></button>The importance of innovation
    - <button></button>The potential for biomethane in Aotearoa
    - <button></button>Asset Management Plan 2023
    - <button></button>EEA conference 2022
    - <button></button>Enabling future choices
    - <button></button>Gas in Aotearoa
    - <button></button>Growing to zero
    - <button></button>Live lines down detection testing
    - <button></button>Powerco begins Decarbonisation Challenge trial with Future Grid
    - <button></button>The Future is Electric
  - <button></button>Energy futures info hub
    - <button></button>Energy calendar
    - <button></button>Biogas - fuelling the future
    - <button></button>Climate resilience and adaptation
    - <button></button>Collection of news, podcasts and other resources
    - <button></button>Community energy resilience
    - <button></button>Electricity sector pathway to achieving net zero
    - <button></button>Electrification of process heat
    - <button></button>EV calculators
    - <button></button>Funding for public sector
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    - <button></button>Gas transition plan
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    - <button></button>Home energy savings calculators
    - <button></button>Network capacity maps
    - <button></button>New regulations for greenhouse gas emissions from industrial process heat
    - <button></button>New Zealands electricity explained through animation
    - <button></button>Power purchase agreements - A smart energy choice for business
    - <button></button>Regional infrastructure fund
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    - <button></button>Solar energy calculators
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