Burt was sentenced in May to three months' community detention, supervision and disqualified from driving for a year and a day for his fourth drink-driving offence .
On the day of the crash, Burt was away from his home for seven hours 32 minutes which breached his community detention curfew, the court was told.
PowerCo is also seeking $19,718.45 reparation, which was the cost to repair the electrical network, power lines and replace the power pole.
Burt, who appeared in Tauranga District Court yesterday, pleaded guilty to charges of careless driving, driving with an excess blood alcohol and driving while disqualified (both 3rd or subsequent offences) and a breach of community detention.
His lawyer Whare Hika urged Judge Robert Wolff to grant bail pending sentencing on October 14, arguing there were no direct victims as a result of his client's offending.
Judge Wolff told Burt there were potentially serious consequences for a number of victims.
"What about all the people whose asthma nebulisers didn't work, or the people whose dialysis equipment didn't work, and the people who missed out watching their TV programmes?"
The judge said it was almost inevitable Burt would be sent to jail next month so it was inappropriate to release him on bail.
