A boatyard owner is hoping to get powered up after his business was left in the dark for nearly four months.
The electricity supply to Gary Cowell's boatyard in Lime Street, Brightlingsea, was cut on October 27, but 118 days later, he was still waiting to be reconnected.
The power was lost to the yard during high winds which wreaked havoc across Essex and left thousands in the county without electricity for days.
Network operator 24seven was criticised for taking too long to reconnect homes and businesses.
But Mr Cowell is still waiting to be reconnected.
He said the boatyard is one of two his firm, East Coast Marine, uses in Brightlingsea and none of his work is carried out at the Lime Street site during the winter.
When power was lost, he told engineers from 24seven the yard was not a priority and thought they would get round to it when they could.
But with the spring approaching and customers wanting access, he became increasingly anxious to get the problem sorted and started petitioning the power company to get something done.
"The saga of phoning around and being told to wait has been going on and on," he said.
Eventually, he turned to Energywatch, a consumer campaigning group, and they got on to 24seven on his behalf.
The company has said it will sort out the problem, but Mr Cowell said he wanted compensation at least to cover the phone bills he had amassed trying to deal with it.
Jean Shanks, of Energywatch, said: "It would seem East Coast Marine has the dubious honour of being the last to see the light in Essex."
A statement from 24seven said it was told the boat yard was without power on November 12.
It went on: "An engineer from 24seven attended the site to investigate this further and was informed by the customer the reconnection of service was not a priority as the boatyard was not used during winter and would not be in use until spring.
"24seven was contacted on February 20 regarding the reconnection of service to the boatyard.
" The company made further contact with the customer and with their agreement arranged for the reconnection to take place tomorrow.
"The company has arranged for a gesture of goodwill payment to be made to cover the cost of telephone calls made to 24seven by the customer."
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