I think Fairmont dropped the ball on applying for it to be honest. The SS told me that the power should have been on for lockup, which for us was 8/4. However, I got an SMS from SA Power in early May saying that they had received our request for electricity to be connected. Even if it took 2 weeks or so for the request to be processed (I think it took a week for our request for power to be disconnected to be acknowledged), it means that they put the request in late.
Your tilers are probably at our house! I think we have the same tiler as Lewiston and he is doing short days most days, probably because of the power!