City Power ‘on track’ to restore power in Roodepoort
City Power says it remains on track to restore power in Roodepoort following Sunday morning’s explosion at the Peter Road substation.
The entity has blamed the explosion on cable theft during load shedding.
Spokesperson Isaac Mangena says it’s a well-known fact that the city is struggling with cable theft and vandalism during planned power cuts.
Mangena says 40% of the customers were restored by midnight, with more expected to be switched on by Monday afternoon.
"We had a little setback early this morning when one of the distributors restored overnight tripped at 2am due to a suspected fault which is being attended to.
“We are on track to complete the repairs and restore most, if not all of the customers by this evening, as per our recovery and restoration plan," says Mangena.
"We are busy finalising the testing of some of the equipment that we just installed on site and the cabling has also been finished.”
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