Alexandra residents protest prolonged power outages as City Power implements load reduction strategies to protect the grid.
Residents of Alexandra, grappling with prolonged power outages, barricaded roads yesterday with burning tyres and rocks to show their frustrations.
Mangena said electricity consumption had reached critical levels, forcing City Power to embark on stringent measures to protect the grid from total collapse. “But residents are concerned about meeting their basic needs. Some have no money to buy candles, paraffin, gas or petrol for their generators as a source of power,” Mopasi said.
He said load reduction was a necessary response to prevent grid strain and the risks of overloading smaller transformers, leading to overheating and potential outages.“Just like how traffic congestion occurs when roads can’t handle the volume of vehicles, transformers can overload when they’re tasked with supplying more households than they were designed for,” he said.
Another energy expert, Lungile Mashile, said Alexandra received its electricity and other services from the City of Joburg. “Its residents pay more for electricity per kilowatt-hour than their Sandton neighbours.
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