Compensation may be on the way for Northlanders affected by a massive power outage last month.

Local MP Grant McCullum has been asking Transpower to compensate people with discounted transmission fees for a year.

Nearly 100,000 people lost power when a tower toppled after maintenance crews unbolted three legs of a pylon at once.

McCullum says Transpower acknowledged to him it owes the region.

"We've just got to work out what that looks like. It would be fair to say that they made a suggestion, I made one, they were a bit further apart - but they're going to go back and talk to the board.

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