Africa-Press – South-Africa. The Sebenza power station tripped in Johannesburg, which cut power to 12 of the busiest suburbs just before peak hour traffic on Thursday afternoon.
Sebenza is supposed to be a buffer supply to mitigate demand across the city.
In a tweet, City Power said the following suburbs were directly impacted:
City Power said a 275kV line had tripped.
Technicians were working on it and updates would be provided later.
The country is already under Stage 2 load shedding because it does not have enough power to serve everyone at the same time.
The latest round, according to Eskom, was caused by a shortage of generation capacity due to delays in returning generators to service, as well as the breakdown of nine generators.
Further details were not immediately available from a spokesperson.
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