City Power urges customers to reduce electricity usage to alleviate power on grid

JOHANNESBURG - City Power is urging its customers to reduce electricity usage in order to alleviate power on its grid.  

This comes as Eskom announced its implementation of stage 3 load shedding, in effect until Monday.  

The reintroduction of load shedding comes at a time when City Power is dealing with a number of outage backlogs attributed to recent heavy rainfall that caused significant damage to the utility's infrastructure.  

Spokesperson Isaac Mangena said the added load shedding may cause further delays in responding to outstanding outage calls.  

"During this period, we often encounter, also during load shedding, an increase in the number of cases of cable theft and vandalism. 

“We appeal to customers to be vigilant and to report any movement around essential electricity infrastructure, so that we do not find ourselves dealing with the outages caused by cable theft."