Down with power poles! How your Trust is helping bury them forever.

Underground power cables are a great alternative to power poles and lines, which is why almost all new residential and industrial areas being built today use them. Unfortunately though, most of Auckland is still covered with old-fashioned power poles.

Thanks to the AECT’s majority ownership of Vector Ltd, we have an agreement with Vector that commits it to spend over $10m a year replacing power lines and power poles with underground cables. This project has seen the look of streets all over Auckland change – so far, more than 124km of power lines have disappeared.

Before and after pictures from the recent Orakei project