city power

  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Joburg defends load limiting households outside load-shedding

    Joburg defends load limiting households outside load-shedding Johannesburg electricity utility City Power has defended its plan to use load limiting to curb the energy demand of residents with smart meters outside of load-shedding hours. When the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) first started...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Joburg vs Eskom prepaid electricity price shocker

    Joburg vs Eskom prepaid electricity price shocker A storm of protest is brewing after City Power put up its prepaid electricity prices to the majority of its poor and indigent customers by six to 12 times the inflation rate, and well above Eskom’s prepaid tariff rates for the poor. City Power...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom wins court fight with City Power over massive outstanding electricity bill

    Eskom wins court fight with City Power over massive outstanding electricity bill The Johannesburg High Court has ordered the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) and City Power (CP) to pay R1.073 billion on an unpaid electricity account with Eskom. The decision comes after Eskom took the city and its...
  5. Hanno Labuschagne

    Joburg getting load reduction, load limiting, and geyser switch-offs despite no load-shedding

    Joburg getting load reduction, load limiting, and geyser switch-offs despite no load-shedding Johannesburg's City Power will start implementing load reduction in areas with "concerning" electricity usage levels that could overload equipment. The power utility has also threatened to switch off...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Eskom and Joburg at loggerheads over R1-billion debt

    Eskom and Joburg at loggerheads over R1-billion debt Eskom is taking Johannesburg power utility City Power to court over its debt for electricity supply. The affidavits it supplied with its court filing show that City Power owes nearly R1 billion for four invoices from late March 2024. The...
  7. Hanno Labuschagne

    Joburg electrical network rerouting will cost R23 million after M1 bridge fire

    Joburg electrical network rerouting will cost R23 million after M1 bridge fire City Power's Charles Tlouane says it will cost roughly R23 million to reroute interconnector cables from the Fordsburg substation to Braamfontein after a fire under the M1 highway knocked out power to several parts...
  8. Hanno Labuschagne

    Electricity thieves march after connection cutoff

    Electricity thieves march after connection cutoff Dozens of homeowners from Mayibuye township in Midrand marched to Rabie Ridge police station on Tuesday, after City Power cut electricity to nearly 100 houses where meter boxes had been tampered with. Public Order Police warned the protesters...
  9. Hanno Labuschagne

    City Power recovers stolen mini-substation after 10 years

    City Power recovers stolen mini-substation after 10 years Johannesburg officials found a substation — normally used to connect residential areas to electricity supply — hooked up on private property, demonstrating the scale of South Africa’s power crisis. Authorities who’d been looking for the...
  10. Hanno Labuschagne

    Joburg's electricity network in dire straits — City Power

    Joburg's electricity network in dire straits — City Power Johannesburg's electricity network is teetering on the edge of total collapse due to load-shedding. That is according to Tshifularo Mashava, chief executive of the metro's power distributor — City Power — in comments given to the Sunday...
  11. Jan

    Joburg announces plan to overhaul load-shedding, including excluding some businesses from power cuts

    Joburg announces load-shedding schedule overhaul — with businesses excluded from power cuts The City of Johannesburg has announced a sea change in its approach to load-shedding that will start rolling out gradually from June 2023. It has overhauled its load-shedding schedules and will exclude...
  12. Jan

    Johannesburg proposes big changes to load-shedding schedules

    Johannesburg proposes big changes to load-shedding schedules The power-distribution utility in South Africa’s commercial capital is in talks with the state electricity company to reduce the duration of outages in the city of more than 5 million people. City Power officials proposed that the...
  13. Jan

    Joburg seeks funding for R401-million plan to mitigate three stages of power cuts

    Joburg's R401-million plan to slash three stages of load-shedding The City of Johannesburg (CoJ) has announced a R400-million project to cut load-shedding by up to three stages and ultimately end rotational power cuts in the city. Johannesburg Mayor Mpho Phalatse delivered the remarks during a...
  14. Jan

    City Power asks residents for patience as it runs out of substation spares

    City Power runs out of substation spares — and it's running out of money City Power has run out of minisubstations to restore power to several areas in Johannesburg, and it has already spent 80% of its budget for the financial year. The power utility spent R200 million over the last year to...
  15. Hanno Labuschagne

    Joburg asks Eskom for load-shedding reprieve to fix big network problems

    Joburg asks Eskom for load-shedding reprieve to fix big network problems The City of Johannesburg asked state power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. for a three-day exemption from continuing outages to enable the authorities to stabilise supply. Flooding following recent heavy rains damaged...
  16. Jan

    City Power seeing 10 cable theft incidents per day

    Cable thieves raking in money while South Africa bleeds Cable thieves rob South Africa's power providers blind, stealing millions of rands worth of copper cabling each year, and increased load-shedding has only worsened the situation. During an interview with 702, City Power security and risk...
    • Jan
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    • cable theft city power department of trade and industry (dti) ebrahim patel sergeant thela
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  17. Jan

    eJoburg lets residents submit power and water meter readings online

    Joburg residents can now submit power and water metre readings online The City of Johannesburg (COJ) will allow residents to submit electricity and water meter readings online via its eJoburg self-help portal. The metropolitan municipality said the new service aimed to reduce customer...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • city of johannesburg (coj) city power ejoburg rand water
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  18. Jan

    City Power criticises EskomSePush for spreading misinformation

    City Power slates EskomSePush City Power has criticised the EskomSePush app, saying that the application, and similar apps, only create confusion for its customers. This is despite EskomSePush being invaluable for people trying to keep track of Eskom's constantly changing load-shedding stages...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • city power dan wells eskom eskomsepush herman maritz load-shedding
    • Replies: 70
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  19. Hanno Labuschagne

    Electricity price battle in South Africa

    Electricity price battle in South Africa Johannesburg's City Power stands accused of "unthinkable" and "irrational" behaviour for charging over 80% more than Eskom's rates for electricity to businesses. The city's power tariffs are being used as an example in a court application challenging...
  20. Jan

    Johannesburg needs R26 billion for power supply - mayor

    Joburg needs R26 billion for stable power — and it only has R1 billion Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city, needs 26 billion rand ($1.6 billion) to stabilize power supply by 2030 as recurrent outages inhibit economic activity, Mayor Mpho Phalatse said. South Africa has been hit by...
  21. Jan

    SAPS, JMPD, Eskom raid Soweto scrapyard for stolen copper cables

    Massive copper cable bust in Soweto A massive haul of stolen copper cables was recently uncovered during a raid of the Devland scrapyard near Soweto. The operation — a combined effort between the Saps, JMPD, and Eskom — saw heaps of copper cabling confiscated as part of a broader sweep of the...
    • Jan
    • Thread
    • city power eskom johannesburg metro police department (jmpd) south african police service (saps)
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
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