The City of Johannesburg has urgently sent a request to Eskom for a three-day load-shedding exception in order to catch up with its ever-growing black log of faults and outages following the continuous rains.
On behalf of City Power, City of Joburg Mayor Mpho Phalatse submitted the request to Eskom for the 72-hour exclusion.
According to Department of Environment and Infrastructure Services MMC Michael Sun, while City Power has made progresses with its already limited resources in addressing the thousands of outages, more faults are being logged every hour.
As of December 12, City Power was dealing with over 4 000 service calls, the hardest hit areas include Roodepoort, Hursthill, Northcliff and Lenasia where infrastructure was severely damaged by flooding
#CrisisManagement @CityPowerJhb infrastructure took an absolute battering during the storms of the past few days.
Damaged power lines, submerged mini-substations, drenched cable trenches and the continuous is making it near impossible for our technical teams.
We will endure! pic.twitter.com/Pzpsogi30T
— MMC: EISD, Cllr. Michael Sun (@MichaelSun168) December 10, 2022
“Given the urgent need for City Power to attend to the widespread and escalating faults, the entity has expressed its concern that load-shedding is not only causing to additional faults and stress on the network, but also preventing the entity from being able to effectively attend to the outages and to stabilise the situation.
“It is a simple fact that power lines and infrastructure cannot be worked on when there is no power, and cable theft increases exponentially during blackouts,” Sun said.
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