What's the latest with grid connections?

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What's the latest with grid connections?

View our progress to connect new electricity generation, energy storage and load projects for our customers.

We’re working at pace to connect new generation, batteries and load to meet New Zealand’s electricity needs into the future.

In the last few years, there's been a big increase in the number of electricity generation developers with projects they want to connect to the national grid. We're also seeing an increase in projects from electricity distribution networks and others to deliver more power to homes and businesses.

We're working hard to make these all these connections faster and reduce wait times.

Generation and battery connection projects

As of 8 October 2026 we are delivering 16 new generation projects which will collectively add 3,342 MW to New Zealand's electricity supply.

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The graphic above is at 8 October 2026 and provides an overview of our progress in connecting new generation and batteries to the national grid. Some projects include more than one type of resource (for example, projects of solar plus batteries). Stage counts show the number of Transpower connections, while technology counts represent the number of technologies connecting.

For a more detailed view of the generation and battery connection projects (as of 8 October 2026), you can download the data below.

Download generation and battery storage projects spreadsheet（https://static.transpower.co.nz/public/uncontrolled_docs/Generation and energy storage connection pipeline.xlsx?VersionId=yAXo39NSX9UT.dZTzfrBlZXhEdjS2NKh）

Note: The order of the projects indicates the order in which we allocate resources, transmission assets and land.

Note: From our Nov 2025 update onwards, our pipeline data is formatted to split connections with multiple generation or storage stages or technologies, into one row per stage / technology.

Load and other customer projects

We're also delivering 18 projects for our network customers right now, increasing power supply to communities that need it, helping big industrial power users electrify their operations, supplying new industries, and relocating our assets when needed for other infrastructure projects. For an overview of the customer projects other than generation and battery connections that we are working on (as of 8 October 2026), you can download the data in the blue bubble below. For these projects, we allocate resources based on priority, not necessarily in the order requests are received.

Download load and other projects spreadsheet（https://www.transpower.co.nz/media/43339）

We consulted on a proposed application process for these projects, and welcomed our customers, potential customers and the wider industry to provide submissions .