Cable faults cause of Denneoord and Bergsig power outages

GEORGE NEWS - During a 24-hour period this week, seven cable faults were experienced on five 11kV cables.

The cables mostly fed the CBD, Denneoord and Bergsig areas.

The bulk of the residents in these areas could be re-energised using alternative feeders, but unfortunately 13 small transformers had to remain off until repairs were completed to at least one of the 11kV underground cables.

According to municipal spokesperson Chantel Edwards-Klose, a preliminary investigation and fault analysis indicated that there were no network abnormalities or negligence that could have caused the cable faults.

"Further investigations are still being performed to give us an indication as to why so many cable faults occurred in such a short time. The latest series of load shedding by Eskom has not been ruled out as a possible cause," said Edwards-Klose.

"The network remains vulnerable until such time as all the cables have been repaired and the system is switched back to normal. The first outage occurred at 03:13 on Monday 15 February and the last consumers were restored at 02:51 on Tuesday 16 February.