Power lines glinting in the sun at Transpower’s Ōtāhuhu substation. TransGO – Transpower’s private telecommunications system – helps monitor substations and the national grid operator’s systems as a whole, and helps it set the wholesale prices that form a big chunk of your power bill. Photo / Alex Burton
Spark will help our national grid operator hold it together through a $100m comms network upgrade. Microsoft plans to reboot the Three Mile Island nuclear plant (last seen melting down on Jane Fonda). And high-flying