Named in a role in 13 records, and mentioned in the text of 19 entries, between 2018 and 2026.
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On 20 January 2026 at 16:53, both units at Koeberg Nuclear Power Station were reduced from full power to 100 MW each after a fault on the 132 kV transmission lines supplied from the Pinotage transmission substation near Stellenbosch. Eskom said the reduction...
A transformer explosion occurred at Matla Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on the afternoon of 12 December 2024, affecting Unit 6. Unit 5 was taken offline as a precautionary measure. Initial reports indicate nine employees were injured, with one in...
A transformer caught fire at the Atholl substation in Sandton, Gauteng, on 17 July 2024. Gauteng Emergency Services received a call about a transformer fire at 13:00 and attended. The fire was reported at the corner of Katherine Street and Pretoria Avenue,...
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An explosion occurred and a fire broke out at the Zola substation in Soweto on 12 June 2024. Areas including Dobsonville Extensions 3 and 5, Jabulani, Mofolo North, Naledi, Tladi, Zola, Zondi, Emdeni, Moletsane and Old Dobsonville were affected. Service was...
A fire broke out at the Houtkoppen substation, north of Johannesburg, on the night of 5 September 2023. Residents in Block 10, including Witkoppen, North Riding and Kya Sands, were left without power. City Power said preliminary investigations suggested a...
A fire at the Cloetesville substation in Stellenbosch, South Africa, on 22 May 2023 blew out a transformer at the site. The outage affected Cloetesville, Kayamandi and Koelenhof from around 17:30 that day. According to Stellenbosch Municipality, power was...
A fire broke out at the Mahikeng substation in North West, South Africa, and badly burnt the medium voltage control room, where cables from the high voltage side connect to supply suburbs and villages. At the time of reporting, several areas had been without...
On 8 November 2022, The Citizen reported an explosion at the Bryanston North substation (also referred to as Brynorth Substation) affecting Bryanston and parts of Riverclub in South Africa. City Power said the substation tripped earlier that day because of...
A 500 kVA Eskom transformer supplying the Dysselsdorp purification works caught fire and was destroyed. About 1,500 households in Dysselsdorp and rural areas east of Oudtshoorn, including Rooiheuwel, Vlakteplaas, Middelplaas and Oudemuragie, were left without...
During Stage 4 load shedding by Eskom, South Africa's grid operator, a cooling failure was reported at MTN's Gallo Manor data centre in Johannesburg. MTN said a power outage on the Wednesday afternoon affected one of its coolers at the site. MTN said the...
On a Tuesday night in October 2022, an explosion at the 275 kilovolt Klaarwater substation, described as a key electricity supply point to Durban from Eskom, left much of the city of eThekwini without power. Outages affected the northern, western and southern...
On 29 December 2021 Eskom confirmed that an internal fault had resulted in a transformer explosion on Unit 8 of the Camden Power Station. The unit produces about 190 MW. The fire was contained and no injuries were reported. Eskom said an investigation was...
Eskom said that, over the weekend before 13 September 2021, a fire incident at Kendal Power Station in South Africa damaged the generator transformer on Unit 1. Units 2 and 3 were shut down following that damage. Eskom said Units 2 and 3 would return to...
An explosion occurred at Eskom's Parys substation in Parys, South Africa, on a Tuesday evening, causing a fire that damaged technical equipment and cut power to the town. The power outage also disrupted the local water supply, as water distribution...
On the morning of 12 January 2020, transformers caught fire at a substation on Plane Road in Spartan, Kempton Park, at the Len Futcher building, described in reporting as the electricity department building and also referred to as an Eskom substation. The...
An explosion occurred at the Brynorth substation in Johannesburg, South Africa, when a feederboard blew up, according to City Power. The incident affected power supply to Bryanston, Morningside, Khanyisa, River Club, Douglasdale and surrounding areas,...
An explosion and fire occurred at a substation in Randfontein on the morning of 6 April 2019. One transformer caught fire and burnt. The cause had not been determined. Power was restored to most affected suburbs after at least eight hours, with electricians...
A transformer at the Anglo Dankbaarheid Substation, located between Welkom and Virginia in the Free State, was struck by lightning on a Sunday afternoon and caught fire. Eskom stated that the transformer, known as transformer four, contained approximately...
On 12 June 2018, Mogale City Local Municipality said a sudden power outage was caused by a fire at a substation in the Kagiso area, described in the same report as rural Krugersdorp. The municipality said Eskom had lost a busbar, affecting supply to Mogale...
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