January 9, 2006
By Anish Abraham
OFFICIALS at City Power, Johannesburg's electricity utility, are still investigating the cause of a power failure that affected a substantial part of the city last night.
Several suburbs, including Linden, Emmarentia, Greenside, Parktown, Parktown North, Forest Town, Victory Park and Roosevelt Park were left in the dark for almost an hour on 8 January.
City Power has put a five-year, R2-billion programme in place to replace and overhaul obsolete infrastructure. Under the programme substations and cables will be upgraded, transformers and switchgears will be refurbished and public lighting will be installed throughout the city.
During the current financial year, which ends in June, the City will spend R400-million on electrical infrastructure.
This amount will be increased to R674-million in the 2005/06 financial year, followed by R473-million and R470-million in the 2006/07 and 2007/08 financial years, respectively.
According to City Power spokesperson Sol Masolo a tripped substation caused the power failure, although the cause of the trip is not yet known.
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