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Articles on Transmission Projects in Oceania

• Wind Farms Caught in a Catch-22 Situation
  Mar 1, 2007 - Energy Central
  
  The Press: Christchurch, New Zealand: Wind-farm proposals will not be able to provide much-needed power to the rest of New Zealand unless Central Otago has new transmission lines, Transpower says.
  
  
• WORLD'S LONGEST ELECTRICITY CABLE REACHES TASMANIA
  HOBART, July 20 - Asia Pulse
  
  The world's longest undersea electricity cable reached Tasmanian shores today in one of the final steps to link the state with the national electricity market.
  
  http://goliath.ecnext.com/comsite5/bin/pdinventory.pl?pdlanding=1&referid=2750&item_id=0199-4484407#abstract

• World's Longest Underwater Electricity Link Opens in Australia: Premiers flick switch on Basslink
  May 9, 2006 au.biz.yahoo.com
  
  The world's longest underwater electricity link is now in operation following the official opening of the Basslink power cable between Victoria and Tasmania. The 360-kilometre electricity link spanning Bass Strait was simultaneously launched yesterday by Victorian Premier Steve Bracks and his Tasmanian counterpart Paul Lennon.
  
  http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/premiers-flick-switch-on-basslink/2006/05/09/1146940548373.html

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