Weltevreden Park’s electric black hole
WELTEVREDEN PARK — Residents in the dark about inconsistent power trips.
A Weltevreden Park resident has been in a dark pit, literally for more than five years, with inconsistent power trips and power failures.
Roger Jaton has synonymously called the area, which is north of Hendrik Potgieter, ‘The electrical black hole’.
“In 2014 there were 11 power trips from April to July, the most frustrating thing about this is that from my house, I can see the streetlights on Hendrik Potgieter burning and the whole mountainside of Constantia Kloof having their lights on.
According to the resident, it takes up to nine hours before City power switches the power back on. “On 11 June, the electricity went off at about 4pm and around 6:20pm it came back for three minutes and then it was off again,” a frustrated Jaton added.
Louis Pieterse from City Power, previously said the circuits/sub circuits of Grid 3B Weltevreden Park trip on inrush current. He advised customers on the importance of switching off most of their circuits and gradually switching it back on after load shedding or an outage.
The frustrated resident said on 17 June, they experienced the actual load shedding and power was restored at around 9pm, however, 10 minutes later, the power in the ‘black hole’ was off again, “at that time again, Constantia Kloof and street lights on Hendrik Potgieter were burning,” he said.
