Power
restored to all customers in north Christchurch
Power has
been restored to all customers following a fault yesterday
evening on a high voltage 66kV line that runs from Islington
to Papanui. The fault initially resulted in the loss of
power to approximately 30,000 customers in north and
north-west Christchurch at around 9.30pm Wed 9 July.
The
cause of the outage will not be known until the high voltage
line is able to be examined in the daylight.
CEO Rob
Jamieson said "our crews, working in the dark, did a great
job to restore power to everyone within a few hours
following this rare type of failure. Although very
unfortunate for those affected tonight, hopefully this
outage can serve as a reminder for everyone to have a backup
plan for when power does go off. As a minimum people should
have torches, with spare batteries,
available."
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