Staff Reporter.
City Power hopes to have electricity supply to Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, fully restored on Monday.
A fire gutted at least two transformers at the Robertville substation in the early hours of Saturday, leaving large parts of Roodepoort in Gauteng without electricity.
“Firefighters were dispatched, and the fire was extinguished by 08:00.”
The blaze left Robertville, Wibsey Dip, Stormhill, and Putcoton suburbs without power.
Work continues at #Robertsville substation. The teams worked around the clock to ensure that we meet our Monday deadline for power to be restored.
A new Transformer will be brought on site and assembled.
At least 60% of the job has been done so far. pic.twitter.com/CGt6NS24cA— @CityPowerJhb (@CityPowerJhb) March 6, 2022
City Power Spokesperson Isaac Mangena says the repairs were delayed by rain.
“The teams have worked overnight to ensure that we do repairs of the burnt infrastructure, one transformer has been repaired on-site and tested positively on Sunday morning.
“There is work to bring a new transformer on-site and we hope that the repairs will be on Sunday evening and power will be restored on Monday as planned. This place is an industrial area and we really apologise to the customers. The cause and the cost of the fire is being investigated.”