Electricity has been restored in most of the of the villages affected by last week’s wildfires, electricity authority (EAC) spokeswoman Christina Papadopoulou said in a social media post on Tuesday evening.

“Our goal [is] to reconnect every home to electricity safely and as soon as possible”, she wrote in a post on Facebook.

According to a list shared in Papadopoulou’s post, electricity has been fully restored – either through grid reconnection or generators – in several of the fire-affected villages, including Ayios Georgios Sylikou, Alassa, Kissousa, Mallia, Omodos, Potamiou, Ypsonas, and Sotira.

Elsewhere, restoration efforts continue at pace. Monagri is now 98 per cent reconnected, with Koilani following at 95 per cent and 90 per cent in Vouni and Kivides, while Souni-Zanatzia stands at 80 per cent.

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Papadopoulou said that in Ayios Therapon, Vasa Koilaniou, Lofou, and Arsos, electrification has reached 70 per cent with the lowest level of coverage remaining in Ayios Ambrosios at 65 per cent.

Earlier on Tuesday, Papadopoulou told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) that work to replace electricity infrastructure destroyed by last week’s wildfire was well underway with 300 of the 500 damaged pylons replaced by Monday night, along with 11 of the 50 transformers lost to the blaze. All 11 new transformers, she said, were already fully operational.

Since the weekend, crews have also installed around 12 kilometres of new overhead power lines to replace those lost to the flames, Papadopoulou added.

“We are continuing to work non-stop. Our absolute priority is to complete the network repair work safely and as quickly as possible,” she told CNA.

She then moved to explain the process, saying that work is first being carried out on the “medium voltage” network, which she described as the “trunk of the network”.

Once that network has been restored, she said, transformers will be activated so that the “low voltage” network, which is used in residential properties, can be activated.

“Premises which were not damaged will be reconnected once the entire network is set up and the transformer which supplies them can be activated,” she said, adding that for properties which were damaged, the process will be longer.

“It will take a long time to set up a new electrical installation, have an inspection, and connect those properties to the network from scratch,” she said.

She went on to say that the process of re-electrifying the fire-impacted parts of the Limassol district will be a “time-consuming process” and an “enormous task”.

“We are trying to do as much work as we can,” she said.

She had on Monday said that a team of more than 150 people is working “non-stop” to repair the damage caused by the fire.

“The EAC has undertaken a huge project to repair the damage in the affected areas of the Limassol district, where our priority is for everyone to have electricity,” she said.

She also said the EAC has deployed drones, “which we used to save a lot of time and managed to safely inspect and record damage” between the villages of Trimiklini and Lofou, which she said was “in an area which was very difficult to access, where the ground had cracked due to the high temperatures”.

For work to be carried out in that area, she added,“special excavators” were required to “pave the way for EAC vehicles to pass”.