City Power answers to Hurlingham feeder 1 power-supply repairs
Hurlingham residents are to note that city power is aware of the issues that arose with Hurlingham Feeder 1's power supply not working.
Frustrated Ward 102 councillor David Potter seeks answers from City Power on when they will repair the Hurlingham feeder 1 power supply.
According to Potter in November last year, he wrote to City Power about the Hurlingham 1 feeder and, to date, hasn’t gotten a response from them.
“I want City Power to tell us why it has taken them so long to repair the feeder and also why they don’t communicate with residents on the state of the feeder,” he said.
He added feeder 2 had tripped recently and left residents with no power, and feeder 1 couldn’t kick in as repairs had not been done.
The Sandton Chronicle asked City Power why it had taken them so long to repair the feeder and if there were material and funding shortages.
City Power’s spokesperson Isaac Mangena said the delay in repairs and outages were caused by low transformer oil, resulting in the night shift team not completing the work.
He added they were in the process of ordering material to fix a faulty cable on feeder 1, and once the order of the material was finalised, the repairs would commence.
“It is worth noting that in the past few weeks, City Power has communicated that materials required for repairs are increasingly becoming difficult to source as they get depleted faster than we procure them, resulting in prolonged power outages as our team battles to repair and restore power in some cases.
“We are in constant engagement with our suppliers regarding materials and have been getting deliveries of various stock materials such as MV cables, LV cables, mini substations (MSS), bulk metering kiosks, breakers, and joints daily.”
He said the time it would take to fix the feeder depended on the extent of the fault, and only when they have identified all the issues could they confirm a completion date.
“We can not predict when future faults will occur in our infrastructure and this is partly due to our ageing infrastructure. Another major issue is load shedding which harms our infrastructure.”
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