{"id":94481,"date":"2015-07-29T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=94481"},"modified":"2015-07-29T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:27:08","slug":"city-power-moves-to-prevent-total-blackout-in-randburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/94481\/city-power-moves-to-prevent-total-blackout-in-randburg\/","title":{"rendered":"City Power moves to prevent total blackout in Randburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

City Power announced a power outage in the Randburg area on Wednesday, in an attempt to prevent a total blackout.<\/p>\n

The electricity supplier said in a statement that it is currently conducting load shifting due to a technical problem with an Eskom transformer which feeds City Power.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis results in overload problems on the remaining Eskom transformer. Therefore, to prevent a total blackout of the Randburg substation, City Power is forced to rotate customers until Eskom resolves the transformer malfunction,\u201d the supplier said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEskom technicians are on site and working around the clock to restore the transformer that supplies power to the Randburg substations,\u201d according to City Power.<\/p>\n

The following areas will be affected by load rotation:<\/p>\n