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Equipment failure is behind roughly 60% of City Power’s medium-voltage outages, but it’s the outages caused by thieves and vandals that anger Johannesburg residents the most.
On the bright side, there has been a sharp drop in theft and vandalism-related outages on the medium-voltage network since Eskom’s loadshedding ended in March 2024. In the last six months of 2023, theft and vandalism were the cause of 17% of the outages, which dropped to 9% in the last six months of 2024. Only 4% of medium-voltage outages in March this year were caused by thieves and vandals.
A light at the end of that tunnel, perhaps?
But falling crime-related outages don’t explain why overall outages on the medium-voltage network are still rising, from 462 in July 2023 to 494 in March 2025.