Transpower

Transpower has been working with lines companies Unison and Eastland to reconfigure electricity distribution in the region, but warns there are limits to the ...

Andrew said Transpower was working “really hard” to assess the damage to its network and work out how long it would take to fix, and to see what it could do in the meantime to reconfigure its network to get people’s power up as soon as possible. But it said that would not be sufficient to power the whole of both regions and the ability of Unison and Eastland to restore power to customers also depended on the extent of damage to their local networks. * It has since been able to increase the power supply to Eastland to 23MW, it said in an update at 10am. It said then that it had also been able to supply Gisborne-based Eastland Networks with 10 megawatts (MW), or enough power for 10,000 homes, by re-routing power from Genesis’ Tuai hydro power station on Lake Waikaremoana. [announced late on Tuesday afternoon](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/131220400/first-progress-made-restoring-power-to-gisborne-and-hawkes-bay) that it had be able to supply Hastings-based Unison Networks with enough power to supply about 17,000 homes by re-routing power from the grid through a different substation at Fernhill.