Outages happening once too often

Shireen Hartley (email) writes:

I slept at my daughter’s house as she was away, attending a workshop, when the second recent power outage in Florida occurred.

At about 7.50pm on Wednesday night, the power supply failed in the whole area. It came back on again at around 10.50pm, which convinced me it was load shedding. On Thursday morning when I awoke at around 6.15am the power supply was off yet again and is still off as I am typing this email to you (Thursday afternoon at 3pm).

This is happening once too often. About a week or two ago there was no power supply for nearly 15 hours and unfortunately, residents in the affected areas just had to accept and deal with it. This is apart from the 1- and 2-hour power cuts every other day!

This is all because there is no maintenance being done to the various substations and cabling network in our “wonderful” city.

I took note of information that City Power had difficulty tracing the underground cabling fault which leads to and exits the Northcliff substation, which feeds our substation in Florida Glen and surrounding areas. It is expected to take them a further 3 to 4 hours to find and fix the fault. Unacceptable.