Via the NZ Herald News, a report dated March 1: Christchurch earthquake: Latest updates. Excerpt:
5:20 pm
Lines company Orion hopes to have electricity restored to 86 percent of Christchurch by the end of the day but 27,000 customers still remain without power following Tuesday's devastating quake.
Orion remained still aimed to have power restored to 95 percent of Christchurch residents by Sunday. This figure did not include parts of the CBD, which remained off limits, and customers who could not be connected because of property damage.
However, the company warned the number of residents being reconnected each day would likely decrease as it began to work on areas with extensive damage to underground cable networks. Orion had begun property-by-property inspections and reconnections in Lyttelton and last night completed a 66kV overhead line to the Brighton substation.
Work had begun on connecting up a large 41-tonne transformer between the line and the substation and Orion hoped to start the substation on Thursday and begin the "slow process" of connecting customers in Dallington and Brighton.
To relieve pressure on what was a "fragile network", Christchurch residents were asked to conserve power.
