The System

Understanding the Electricity network

Power starts in our environment before being harnessed by Eastland Network to distribute it throughout our wider region, and make it available to our homes and businesses.

While we create it, the delivery of power to each of our customers is done through retailers like Contact and Genesis.

Key Facts

  • 25,500
    homes are supplied within the Eastland area
  • 3,280km
    kilometres of overhead wires, with a further 380 kilometres underground
  • 56.5MW
    The maximum demand for the combined Gisborne, East Coast and Wairoa region
  • 300GWh
    The approximate annual distribution of electricity
  • 11,952 km2
    Eastland Network covers 11,952 square kilometres
  • 17 / 3680
    The network has 17 zone substations and 3,680 distribution substations
  • 3 networks
    Eastland Network is actually made up of three networks – Gisborne, Wairoa and Tuai