Parts of Bloemfontein in the Free State have been left in the dark after an explosion at a substation.
The Harvard Substation, which supplies electricity from Eskom to supplier Centlec, exploded on Monday night causing the city’s darkest transmission lines.
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Centlec is currently trying to assess the situation and will provide more details once the cause of the explosion has been identified.
“Dear customers, please note that we are experiencing loss of power supply with 132kv incomers tripping in Harvard, due to supply to Mangaung affecting the entire town.
“The estimated time for restoration is currently unavailable due to the nature of the fault. We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this outage,” the electric utility said on Facebook.
Areas affected include:
- LHP
- Flowers
- Bayswater
- Fichardtpask
- orange
- And finer
- Rocklands
- Hill view
- Wagu brand
- Pentagon Park
- Bainsvlei
- University
- Story
- Flower side
- Rodewal
- Bloemspruit
- Sea view
- Kelly’s view
- Western Denmark
- Northridge
- attacker
- Bloemdustria
- Fleurdale
- Story
- Tempeh
- see
- Hospital Park
- Hamilton
- grass
- heather valley
- Arcadia
Load shedding is suspended
South Africans received some unexpected reprieve from shedding their burdens on Monday when members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and other political parties took to the streets for a national shutdown.
According to Eskom, the power outage was temporarily halted due to lower-than-expected demand for electricity.
Phase 2 of load shedding will return on Tuesday, with Eskom set to implement power cuts from 4pm.
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