Overloaded Auckland lines sag a lot and the clearances are less, hence the container stacker got away with it under normal conditions but not while one circuit was out.
The 400 kV line may be built now a bit faster although this incident happened between Otahuhu and Henderson, and this power black out would also have happened if the 400 kV line was in place.
Aucklanders and myself love our latté and capuchinno and our coffee machines were off indeed :-)
Lucky that the South Island generation didn't trip off on overfrequency because of the sudden load loss on the network.
Those hard working S.I. generators probably appreciate a little break in their arduous duties for the power hungry Auckland city dwellers.
I wonder if any HV powerlines or the DC lines were swaying because of the instant drop of a large load.
