Richards Bay electricity restored after substation fire
Power was restored within a few hours to the affected areas
ELECTRICITY to the Richards Bay CBD, industrial area and suburbs affected by this morning’s fire at the Hercules substation has been largely restored.
At about 6am today (Thursday), transformer 2 caught fire, affecting the power supply to the whole of the town’s CBD, Alton and surrounding suburbs including as far as Mandlazini.
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By 7am the fire had been extinguished.
By 9am, the City of uMhlathuze electrical team had restored power to Alton and the CBD, while the suburbs’ lights came back on throughout the morning.
Despite this outage, the usual load shedding schedule remains in place.
There is also an electricity outage in Empangeni, affecting Zidedele and ZSM, after an electricity pole caught fire during sugar cane burning of a nearby farm.
According to uMhlathuze Municipality, power could be out in these areas for the duration of the day as the pole and all its elements must be replaced.
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