City Power has warned Johannesburg residents that they should expect more power outages and “load rotation” due to an increase in electricity demand. City Power would like to warn and urge our customers to use electricity efficiently to avoid the likelihood of increased outages during the cold winter season, and minimize the possibility of load rotation in some hotspot areas,” the municipality said in a statement.
“With the winter season knocking, City Power is already experiencing capacity constraints in most areas, especially where illegal connections are on the rise.” We are projecting the demand for electricity to increase and the power system is forecast to be tight in the coming weeks,” it said.
In anticipation of unplanned outages due to the electricity grid being overloaded, the municipality has increased its substation transformer capacity to a maximum level and made resources available for quick response to power outages. The power outages are normally caused by high demand for electricity usage during the old months of winter, which leads to network overloading,” City Power said.
According to the municipality, growing informal settlements are illegally connecting to electricity infrastructure and overloading the grid beyond capacity. Subsequently, part of City Power’s strategy for the winter season will be to remove the illegal connections in hotspots where the electricity grid is projected to be overloaded.
City Power said that it will implement load rotation (controlled power cuts) in areas that are experiencing regular power outages caused by overloading. This is done to prevent the whole substation from blowing up,” City Power said. The load rotation will be implemented every day between 16:00 and 22:00 only in areas where our monitoring suggests our infrastructure is under severe strain and pressure.
City Power noted that illegal connections are increasing in both townships and suburbs, and warned that it will immediately disconnect any illegal connections found by its workers and will take legal action against customers who bypass meters or who do not pay for their services.
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