Behind Johannesburg’s load reduction

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Outages: Excessive demand created by illegal connections and a population increase in unplanned areas cause transformers to fail and explosions at substations, which take time to repair. (Morapedi Mashashe/Gallo Images)

City Power says it cut power as a ‘last resort’ to save the grid from collapse – and recoup debts

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