Power failure at Orlando switching station cuts electricity to these Joburg areas
A network failure at the Orlando switching station has knocked out electricity to large parts of southern and western Johannesburg, affecting customers across three service delivery centres, City Power said on Wednesday.
According to City Power, supply had already been returned to parts of Eikenhof and to Rand Water, allowing the water utility to resume pumping at a reduced capacity while the rest of the network remained down.
City Power explained that the Orlando switching station feeds several substations across the city, which is why the fault spread so widely.
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