City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena said several of its substations, controlled from Eskom’s side, were “delayed to be restored”, sending panic to customers around Randburg
PRETORIA – Joburg power utility, City Power, has apologised to customers in the northern areas of Randburg after electricity to their community was not returned at the end of scheduled load shedding periods.
“They include Randburg substation feeding Bromhof, Northriding, Randpark Ridge which was scheduled to return late afternoon , and Bryanston, Fontainebleau, Northriding, Beyers Naude, Harley, Windsor and Morningside substations scheduled for restorations at 8pm,” Mangena said. Yesterday, due to a further shortage of generation capacity, Eskom announced that stage 4 load shedding had been implemented from noon until 5am on Friday.Stage 2 load shedding would kick-in until 5am on Saturday. Eskom said the implementation of stage 4 load shedding is “no cause for alarm as the power system remains to be effectively controlled’’.
“Over the past 24 hours, a unit each at Medupi, Kusile and Matla power stations tripped, while a unit each at Lethabo and Arnot power stations were forced to shut down,’’ the power utility said.
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