City Power says residents and businesses still without electricity following the explosion at its facility in Johannesburg over the weekend are expected to be reconnected by Sunday, with full restoration targeted for the weekend.
WATCH | Residents of Mayfair and surrounding areas have been without electricity since Sunday following explosions at the Mayfair substation. City Power’s group head of operations for the southern region, Noel Maso, says the first phase of power restoration is expected to be completed today.
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The utility says repairs to the line linking the Hursthill and Mayfair substations have been completed, with final testing underway before electricity can be switched back on to critical facilities, including hospitals, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and Sentech.
Residents and businesses still dependent on the Mayfair substation face a longer wait as teams continue replacing damaged infrastructure.
City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena says the utility is working to restore supply in phases.
Mangena says, “Now the team is finalising the testing of the line between Hursthill substation and SABC, and then from there we will then be able to switch on electricity. And the residents and the businesses and customers that were basically without electricity will then have electricity.”
“However, those that are still fed from Mayfair substation, parallel work is happening at that area, and we are basically busy moving with the cabling, moving out of the old infrastructure, putting in the new, and we’re hoping the 1st customers will be restored, at least by Sunday this weekend, with the rest of 100% of the customers that are affected, to be restored by next weekend.”
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