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Definition of Cook Strait cable in English: Cook Strait cablenoun the Cook Strait cableA set of submarine cables that link the electricity networks of New Zealand's North and South Islands. the helicopters currently patrol the zone protecting the Cook Strait cable Example sentencesExamples - What does the Minister say to the company which, this morning at the select committee, said that a bucket of sand could effectively hold up the Cook Strait cable?
- Price separation between the two islands has been a feature of the wholesale electricity market pending the upgrade, currently under way, of the Cook Strait cable linking the national electricity system, which is currently operating on restricted capacity.
- There's also the suggestion that we look at upgrading the capacity of the Cook Strait Cable.
- This is unlikely to be of much direct benefit outside the South Island, the reason being that the Cook Strait Cable only has limited capacity.
- The capacity to shift electricity south across the Cook Strait cable has been increased by about 20 percent.
- This demand is going to pose problems for the national grid, in particular for the aging Cook Strait Cable.
- The Government is considering scrapping the South Island power differential which gives us cheaper power, and is also considering the possibility that we should pay for the Cook Strait cable.
- This figure represents the electricity lost in transmission across the Cook Strait cables to New Zealand's North Island.
- Constraints on the Cook Strait cables limited its capacity to move power in the North Island.
- Every electron going into Wellington, for example, comes through Haywards, and there is scope for a similar act there to plunge the entire lower North Island into darkness (particularly when we are drawing on power from the southern hydro lakes over the Cook Strait cable).
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