Incidents recorded in South Africa across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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News24 reported that an outage at the Braamfontein substation in Johannesburg, South Africa, held up students travelling to sit their exams on Tuesday 20 October 2026 and significantly affected traffic. The article headline describes the event as a substation...
An explosion occurred on the night of Wednesday 14 October 2026 at City Power's Central substation in Marshalltown, Johannesburg CBD, as technicians were assessing repairs at the site. It followed a fire the night before, the fourth fire at the substation...
On Wednesday evening, 14 October 2026 (the date is inferred from the report, which refers to Wednesday evening and to a restoration target of Thursday 15 October), an explosion occurred at Central Substation in Johannesburg, according to City Power. The blast...
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A fourth fire broke out at City Power's Central substation in Marshalltown, in the Johannesburg CBD, overnight before Eyewitness News reported on 14 October 2026. The fire followed three earlier fires at the substation, which had caused consecutive outages in...
A fire broke out at City Power's Central substation in Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon, 13 October 2026, according to EWN and TimesLive. City Power described it as the fourth fire at the facility in roughly two months. The fire damaged feeder board 4 and...
At about 02:15 on Saturday 10 October 2026, a mini substation at Extension 31 in Fleurhof, Roodepoort, was deliberately set on fire. City Power said a preliminary security report found that two individuals unlawfully entered the site and set the unit alight....
A fire at the Waltloo substation in Tshwane, South Africa, on 29 September left residents in Murrayfield, parts of Silverton, Meyerspark, East Lynne and surrounding areas without power for more than 12 days. A local ward councillor said the outage was a...
Electricity supply to 50 households in Randpark Ridge was restored on 5 October 2026 after a two-week outage. The failure was caused by a burnt-out winding in a mini-substation that had also been vandalised. City Power ordered a replacement unit on 27...
An explosion occurred at the Watloo Substation, causing the 132kV Njala Infeed Substation to trip and leading to a major power supply interruption across several parts of Tshwane. Multiple primary substations were affected, including Watloo, Wingate,...
A fire at a substation in Springs affected power supply to several suburbs, including Bakerton, Payneville, Gugulethu, Slovo Park, Springs CBD, Petersfield, Strubenvale, Casseldale, Nuffield, Edelweiss, Selection Park Ext 2, portions of Daggafontein and...
A fire broke out inside the Lambert Street 417 electricity substation in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, cutting power to parts of the upper CBD. Firefighters had to force open the substation, reportedly using the jaws of life, before they could tackle heavy...
A fire broke out on 8 September 2026 at the Central Substation in Johannesburg's CBD, operated by City Power, disrupting electricity supply to parts of Marshalltown, City and Suburban, Johannesburg Central and Selby. It was the second fire at the same...
City Power reported fires at Fordsburg substation and Central substation within about a two week period, cutting power to surrounding communities and businesses in Johannesburg. At the first substation, around 90 percent of affected residents had power...
A fire broke out in the early hours of 18 June at a City Power mini substation on Italian Road in Newlands, Johannesburg. Emergency services responded and contained the fire before it spread further. An assessment found extensive damage to an indoor 500kVA...
An explosion occurred at one of the main electricity substations serving Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, on a Thursday in late March 2026. The event affected several substations across a large area, leaving multiple suburbs without power. City Power, the...
Emergency services in New Doornfontein, Johannesburg, responded to a reported substation fire just before 6am. On arrival crews found the substation ablaze, and during the response an explosion occurred, causing a wall of an adjacent student residence...
A fire broke out in the early hours at the Bree substation in central Johannesburg, cutting electricity supply to large parts of the city centre including Newtown, Braamfontein, Bank City and Marshalltown. City Power, the municipal electricity utility, said...
At around 21:15 on 23 February 2026, one of the 132/33 kV transformers at the Bayswater distribution centre in Bloemfontein exploded, causing a fire and leaving several northern suburbs without electricity. The Mangaung fire brigade was dispatched and...
A fire broke out at the Town substation in Vanderbijlpark on 23 February 2026, cutting electricity to hundreds of households across several areas including Bonanne, Bophelong, Bophelong extensions and CW1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and NW7 smallholdings. The fire was...
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...
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