Tshwane residents set for load reduction as city battles massive outage
The City of Tshwane says it will implement load reduction in areas where it has managed to restore electricity.
The move will assist the city to re-channel power to areas that have experienced prolonged power outages following a massive outage on Sunday night.
The outage was caused by 132KV powerlines which fell on the N4, and leading to a power outage affecting large parts of Pretoria East and North.
Tshwane spokesperson Selby Bokaba says the city has also taken the decision to feed the Waltloo and Mamelodi substations with electricity from the Njala infeed substation.
The Waltloo and Mamelodi substations are usually fed by the Pumulani substation, which has also been affected by the power outage.
"The switching team was dispatched to the Waltloo and Mamelodi Substations this morning to start energising transformers to soak, after which they added the load gradually, while constantly monitoring the load. Gradual switching will commence shortly,” Bokaba says.
“It should be noted that this interim measure will likely overload the system, and possible trips may occur. To obviate possible trips due to overload, the city will implement a four-hourly load reduction in some areas of Watloo, Mamelodi (1,2,3), Pumulani and Koedoespoort supply area.”
Load reduction will be implemented in addition to daily loadshedding implemented by Eskom.
The load rotation will impact parts of region 2, 3, 5 and 6.
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