City Power says its teams have restored least 50% of the outage backlogs. loadshedding joburgfloods
A power substation on Allandale Road near Midrand on 12 December 2022. Photo: citizen.co.za/ Neil McCartney
Phalatse said the request was to allow City Power to “meet the nearing insurmountable challenge of escalating faults and outages,” owed to torrential downpours throughout Gauteng over the past week.“City Power will, together with Eskom, use their discretion to decide on the areas that may be under pressure with maintenance and repair backlogs to be given some reprieve from load shedding.”
“Through collaboration between the two entities and in accordance with the National Energy Regulator of South Africa regulations,said its teams spread across Roodepoort have exceeded their target to repair and restore at least 50% of the outage backlogs, pushing the meter to about 75% restored. “Ridge switching substation in Honeydew feeding Lazerpark has also been restored. There was an attempted cable theft at Ruimsig switching station feeding parts of Wilgeheuwel and Honeydew. This has been repaired and power fully restored. “Mangena said City Power also completed repairs at Jan Smuts switching station, and 98% power has been restored.“At Mechanical Workshop, switching station repairs have been completed after cable fault repairs.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
OPINIONISTA: A power struggle within a power crisis as Mantashe and Mashatile make their power movesHas Samson Gwede Mantashe found his full strength and what does that mean for the mining sector and the energy sector in the coming years? It seems that the balance of power has shifted away from President Cyril Ramaphosa, not only to Mantashe but also to Paul Mashatile.
Read more »
ESKOM LIVE | Some relief as Eskom reduces load shedding from Thursday | BusinessJUST IN | Some relief as Eskom reduces load shedding from Thursday | News24_Business
Read more »
AFTER THE BELL: The problem with Eskom is that it’s not just EskomThe problem is not André de Ruyter, it’s parastatals. Even the Chinese government doesn’t hold majority stakes in most of the country’s largest companies, and this is not an unthinking decision.
Read more »
Unions welcome De Ruyter's resignation, Numsa urges Gordhan to follow suitAndre de Ruyter resigned as Eskom CEO on Wednesday amid the country's worsening power crisis.
Read more »
South Africa: Eskom CEO ResignsEskom Chief Executive Officer, André de Ruyter, has resigned from the power utility.
Read more »