Walls have been repaired, including replacing missing sections, and a new electricity cable installed.
The A1 was closed between junction 17 at Haddon and the A47 at Wansford as engineers worked to repair an electricity cable spanning the road.
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The price rise is to offset additional costs faced by Guernsey Electricity after a cable link failure to France forced it to produce on-island power.
Officers said commercial and religious buildings had been frequent targets, but added there had also been thefts of copper cable from electricity lines.
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Instead, BP is piping electricity in through an undersea cable from hydroelectric plants on the Norwegian mainland, 180 miles away.
For example, you can sit at home and pay to top-up your electricity meter or pay your cable TV subscription using Paga.
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In five years or so, an undersea cable may carry electricity, of which Iceland has much, to the Scottish mainland 825km (550 miles) away.
Alan Bates, managing director of Guernsey Electricity, said with the cable link being unavailable for much of 2012 the amount of emissions would rise when last year's figures are produced.
To make the light travel enormous distances, thousands of volts of electricity are sent through the cable's copper sleeve to power repeaters, each the size and roughly the shape of a bluefin tuna.
Some new technology such as ways to squirt data down the copper telephone lines, or even the electricity lines might outflank cable.
For generations, infrastructure sectors and firms have been artificially segregated into regulatory silos (telephone, electricity, water, sewer, cable, railroad, airline, air traffic control).
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As well as the island's power station, Guernsey imports electricity from the French grid via cable links between France and Jersey and between the islands.
For the purposes of floating wind farms, such turbines are not light enough, they are too tall and the rotor blades are too small, according to Mr Bratland's early assessments, made even before the 2.3 megawatt turbine has started delivering electricity through the sea-bed cable that connects it to the Norwegian national grid.
As well as on-island generation through burning fossil fuels Guernsey sources electricity from France, through an undersea cable that runs via Jersey.
In this case, 90 metres of superconducting cable have been installed at an electricity substation owned by Copenhagen Energy.
The report found the amount of gas produced by generating electricity had dropped by 75% since the cable link with France, via Jersey, allowed energy imports from 2001.
The cable would allow the isles to export electricity from renewable energy schemes to the National Grid.
Additional electricity could also be supplied via the existing underwater cable, he said.
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That the royal family also benefited from big private-sector investments including ownership of the mobile-phone industry, cable television, a brewery and the electricity utility increased public disquiet.
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But electricity customers are being asked to pay towards the impact of the damage to the underwater cable by covering the cost of lost sales.
United Utilities said the electricity went off in about 1, 300 households in the Eccles area at 1430 BST due to an underground cable fault.
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