People in most parts of the country will be without power during the Easter weekend.

People in most parts of the country will be without power during the Easter weekend as the Energy Fiji Limited team is still carrying out damage assessment.

Chief executive Hasmukh Patel says the engineers have to examine every power line to find faults and which is a time consuming process.

“We have over 10,000 km of power network which we need to inspect, carry out the necessary repairs and then after we energize and restore power in the respective areas”

Patel has assured power will be restored to 80 percent of its customers by Monday.

“We are trying to restore power and as we get in we see what the damages are and we repair. End of Easter by Monday would we have restored definitely about 85 to 90% would have been restored”

Assessments will be carried out by the EFL team before power can be restored affected areas.

Meanwhile, power supply in Taveuni has normalized while assessment in Viti Levu, Vanua Levu and Ovalau continues.

EFL Chief executive Hasmukh Patel