Pretoria West substation maintenance planned for next week
Residents in parts of Attridgeville will have no power for 10 hours due to safety concerns while the work at Saulsville substation is being carried out.
Parts of Atteridgeville and nearby areas in the west of Pretoria will experience power supply interruptions on Tuesday, July 23, as the metro plans to do maintenance work at the Saulsville substation.
The work is part of the metro’s efforts to prioritise critical infrastructure maintenance and refurbishment to reduce unscheduled outages in the city.
Metro spokesperson Selby Bokaba said the power supply to the substation would be turned off for 10 hours from 08:00 until 18:00 due to safety concerns.
The following areas and streets will be affected:
– Atteridgeville plots
– Brazzaville and Siyahlala
– Atteridgeville informal settlements, Jeffsville and Vergenoeg
– Phumolong Clinic
– Leratong Hospice
– Atteridgeville West, including Ext 19 – Motlhatswa, Mmola, Morutlwa, Morokolo, Mohwelere, Modumele, Modubu, Monaatlou, Motheberebe, Mokwerekwere, Mogalagala, Modjadji, Grootpad, Maunde and Mogalala.
Bokaba said residents in these areas are advised to exercise caution and treat all electricity supply points as live at all times.
“The city apologises for the inconvenience that may arise as a result of this planned maintenance work,” he said.
During the 2024/25 budget speech address, finance MMC Jacqui Uys said that providing a reliable electricity supply was one of the coalition government’s key deliverables.
She said it was important for the city to allocate resources needed to prevent substation fires.
Uys added that the city had allocated R20-million to battery surge protection at the substations.
“We are also allocating R177-million towards electricity network maintenance materials, of which R20-million is ring-fenced to reroute feeder cables to the Rua Vista and Doornpoort supply areas to prevent continuous outages,” she said.
She said that R1-million was dedicated to the Gomsand and Claudius substations for cable repairs in the substation yards and to stabilise the electricity supply in those areas.
An additional R54-million was allocated to strengthen the city’s 11kV cable network, with a focus on panels in secondary substations, network upgrades, and strengthening overhead networks.
“Specific focus will be on installing new feeder cables between Eerste Fabrieke Substation and Nellmapius Substation to relieve additional capacity to support the Tshwane Automotive Special Economic Zone developments in Waltloo,” said Uys.
The metro allocated R179-million towards upgrading various substations in the city. The allocated amounts are as follows:
– Kentron substation: R38-million
– Soshanguve powerline project: R60-million
– Wapadrand substation: R30-million
– Monavoni substation: R31-million
– Mooikloof substation: R15-million
– Pyramid substation: R25-million
– Rosslyn substation: R13-million
– Kwagga infeed station: R5-million.
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