About Orion

We're on the move

On 1 June 2013 we will relocate to new offices at 565 Wairakei Road, Burnside, Christchurch 8053. View a map of our new location.

Our postal address and telephone numbers will remain the same.

Postal:  PO Box 13896, Christchurch 8141, New Zealand
Main office phone:  03 363 9898.

Orion New Zealand Limited owns and operates one of the largest electricity distribution networks in New Zealand. Our network covers 8,000 square kilometres across central Canterbury between the Waimakariri and Rakaia rivers and from the Canterbury coast to Arthur's Pass.

Severely affected by four major earthquakes and numerous aftershocks since September 2010, our primary goal has been to keep the electricity flowing through our 13,600 kilometres of lines and cables to over 190,000 homes and businesses.

There is still recovery work ahead of us and we thank all our customers for their patience as we work to keep the power on.

• current outages on our network
• connecting to our network
• earthquake updates from Orion
• our proposal to the Commerce Commission about our post earthquake prices and reliability targets
• how to stay safe around our network
• reporting graffiti on our network