Seismics and the City Orion NZ Limited

March 2014

David Freeman-Greene

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• Providing you with a safe and reliable supply of electricity

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Focus

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Our new urban investments

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Our new rural investments

proposal…

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In the next 5 years:

• we will invest over $350m on new assets to restore network resilience and to manage customer growth

• 350km of high voltage cable will be laid in our network – that’s the distance from Christchurch to Dunedin

• we will invest an additional $140m on operating and maintaining the network

• approximately 15,000 new connections – new homes and businesses – will be added to our network

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The numbers….

Teamwork and collaboration

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New ways of doing things

Business continuity

Portable substation

• Trees• Plan B• Development

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Communication

“The most important contribution Orion can make is to provide the vital platform of a secure and reliable electricity network so that the Canterbury economy can grow.”

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