City Power has experienced yet another outage shortly after restoring power to Mayfair and surrounding areas on Thursday night.
The power utility says the network became overloaded, causing power supply from the Hursthill substation to trip.
The prolonged outage which began over the past weekend has also affected critical services including the SABC, Sentech and Netcare Garden City hospital.
City power spokesperson Isaac Mangena says, “Our teams delivered on the restoration commitment communicated to the customers and worked tirelessly into the night to bring electricity back to essential services, businesses and also residential areas. Unfortunately, shortly after supply was restored. The network became overloaded and basically tripped again. We do acknowledge the continued inconvenience and assure our customers that our teams remain committed to resolving these complex power outage. Our technical teams will remain on site to address the overload, investigate any other possible courses, and also stabilise the network before gradually restoring supply to all the affected customers during the course of the day and into the weekend.”
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City Power is working to clear an overload on the electricity system after supply from the Hursthill Substation tripped during the early hours of today, shortly after electricity had been restored overnight.
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