Editing Hastings, New Zealand (section)

===Utilities===
The Hastings Borough Council established the city's first public electricity supply in 1912, with electricity generated by two diesel engines in Eastbourne Street. Originally, electricity was supplied using a 230/460-volt three-wire DC system, converting to the now-standard 230/400-volt three-phase AC system in the 1920s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1920-I.2.1.5.1&pg=51&e=-------10--1------0--|title=AtoJs Online — Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives — 1920 Session I — D-01 PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT. BY THE HON. J. G. COATES, MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS.|date=1920|website=atojs.natlib.govt.nz|language=en-NZ|access-date=2020-04-11}}</ref> Hastings was connected to the [[Mangahao Power Station|Mangahao hydroelectric scheme]] in 1927, and the [[Lake Waikaremoana|Waikaremoana hydroelectric scheme]] in 1929. The Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board took over from the borough council in 1935.<ref>{{Cite news|last=BAY|first=MICHAEL FOWLER'S HISTORIC HAWKE'S|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503459&objectid=11073089|title=Historic HB: Drive to provide electricity|date=2012-08-27|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |access-date=2020-04-28|language=en-NZ|issn=1170-0777}}</ref>

The 1998 electricity sector reforms saw the electric power board (then named Hawke's Bay Power) sell its retail base to [[Contact Energy]], with the remaining lines business renamed Hawke's Bay Networks and later [[Unison Networks]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unison.co.nz/tell-me-about/unison-group/unison's-history|title=Unison's history|website=www.unison.co.nz}}</ref> Today, Unison Networks continues to own and operate the local electricity distribution network servicing the city, with electricity fed into it primarily from the [[Transpower New Zealand|Transpower]] substations at Fernhill and Whakatu.

Natural gas arrived in Napier and Hastings in 1983, with the completion of the high-pressure pipeline from Palmerston North to Hastings.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://gasindustry.co.nz/dmsdocument/5344 |title= The New Zealand Gas Story |publisher=Gas Industry Company |date= December 2016 |access-date= 13 February 2017 |archive-date= 2 February 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170202151245/http://gasindustry.co.nz/dmsdocument/5344  }}</ref> The high-pressure transmission pipelines supplying the city are now owned and operated by [[First Gas]], with [[Powerco]] owning and operating the local natural gas distribution network.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.powerco.co.nz/about-us/our-business/our-networks/ |title= Our Networks |publisher=Powerco |access-date= 15 October 2018}}</ref> In February 2004, the city and wider Hawke's Bay Region lost natural gas supply for six days after a flood washed away a bridge near [[Ashhurst]] supporting the high-pressure pipeline to the region.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3550554 | title=Gas supplies return to normal in Hawke's Bay | date=27 March 2024 }}</ref>