Knock-on impact of load shedding has City Power catching up on maintenance
City Power will be doing some maintenance work at Ferndale in Randburg,
which has been plagued by outages due to equipment failure.
Spokesperson for the utility Isaac Mangena says load shedding has affected the network.
“The area which falls under Block 14 has been plagued by outages due to equipment failure. It is also difficult to attend to maintenance during loadshedding due to safety concerns, but the situation now is critical if we are to avoid extensive damages.”
Mangena admits load shedding has slowed down the amount of maintenance being done by City Power.
“We have therefore decided to conduct the maintenance because our infrastructure hasn't been maintained for a very very long time, so oil levels are critically low on more than 50% of our transformers.”
The planned maintenance is set to take place in Ferndale from Wednesday until Saturday.
The maintenance schedule is as follows:
3 November: Ferndale - Surrey Ave, Kent Ave.
4 November: Ferndale- Bond street, Phillip street, Pretoria Avenu, Hiltop street, Noreen street
5 November: Ferndale - Kent, Hill, Pretoria Ave, Hendrick Verwoed Dr,
6 November: Ferndale - Dover street, Oak Ave.
“Our customers in the area have in recent time been inconvenience by prolonged outages after loadshedding and that cannot be right. The truth is our network in Randburg depot needs an urgent attention to reduce outages and equipment failures,” Mangena says.
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