City Power logged nearly 2 500 calls by Wednesday morning following overnight thunderstorms in Johannesburg. The utility said the heavy rain triggered the failure of equipment at various substations.
City Power logged nearly 2 500 calls by Wednesday morning following overnight thunderstorms in Johannesburg.City Power has received a deluge of outage calls following heavy rains in Johannesburg overnight on Tuesday.
"Incidents of cable theft and vandalism in different parts of the city have not made things easier either, leaving many customers without power supply. Roodepoort - where there are currently several outages that our operators are attending to, including Peter Road, where heavy downpours halted the installation of a mini-substation on Tuesday.
Lenasia - the repair work at the Nirvana Substation, where two faulty cables caused an outage, could not be carried out on Tuesday night due to rainfall. Teams are currently busy. "However, due to stretched resources, load shedding, bad weather, cable theft, and vandalism, our response time will, unfortunately, be delayed," said Mangena."We continue to engage with the local councillors on all the solutions we have to deal with these outages. City Power is taking all precautionary measures to mitigate against further trips that bad weather conditions could trigger, said Mangena.
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