Trees & vegetation

Property owners are responsible for trees and vegetation on their land.

Trees too close to power lines are a hazard and a major cause of power cuts during bad weather. They can break power lines and network equipment, resulting in risk of serious injury or death as well as causing widespread power outages.

Trees and power lines – your responsibilities

When to trim your trees

MainPower tree services

Important notifications

Kaikōura outage

We are aware of a power outage affecting customers in the Kaikōura area and understand the disruption this may cause.

Our crews are on the ground carrying out repairs to a fault on the line.

At this stage, customers should be prepared to be without power until around 3pm this afternoon.

If you have immediate concerns, please contact us on 0800 30 90 80.

We will restore supply as safely and as quickly as possible. Please treat lines as live at all times as power may be restored at any time.

We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience while we work to resolve this outage.

Is your outage not listed?

Troubleshoot your outage
Treat all lines as live during the outage period; power may be restored at any time. If you require further information, please call MainPower’s 24-hour faults line. To report an emergency, call 111.

Outage notifications

Kaikōura outage

We are aware of a power outage affecting customers in the Kaikōura area and understand the disruption this may cause.

Our crews are on the ground carrying out repairs to a fault on the line.

At this stage, customers should be prepared to be without power until around 3pm this afternoon.

If you have immediate concerns, please contact us on 0800 30 90 80.

We will restore supply as safely and as quickly as possible. Please treat lines as live at all times as power may be restored at any time.

We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience while we work to resolve this outage.

Is your outage not listed?

Troubleshoot your outage
Treat all lines as live during the outage period; power may be restored at any time. If you require further information, please call MainPower’s 24-hour faults line. To report an emergency, call 111.

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