Hundreds of households supplied by City Power will be powerless for a few days because the electricity provider has run out of mini-substations to replace those which are vandalised or damaged due to higher stages of load-shedding.
“More mini-substations have been ordered and we are expecting deliveries from this week because of the long lead time and festive closure of most factories,” City Power said on Thursday. By Wednesday, City Power was in need of at least 14 mini-substation boxes to deal with several outages in different areas. All were vandalised, eight of them in Roodepoort.
“Unfortunately, these areas and those in other service delivery centres cannot be restored until we receive more mini-substations. We appeal for calm and patience from our customers as we work hard to address this shortage,” City Power said. “The impact of load-shedding is high on our infrastructure, with mini-substations and transformers blowing up or being stolen,” City Power sad.
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