EDITOR: The Statement from our NMB Municipality below refers. I fear for the credibility of our municipality in issuing such words when Eskom can cut us off at any stage. Remember Loadshedding?
ELECTRICITY INTERRUPTIONS IN KWANOBUHLE AND UITENHAGE INDUSTRIAL AREA WILL SOON BE A THING OF THE PAST
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has committed itself to improve the stability of electricity distribution in the industrial town of Uitenhage by committing more than R5.6 million to upgrade the Mabandla Substation in KwaNobuhle in Uitenhage.
This work, currently in Phase One, will soon make the electricity challenges of KwaNobuhle a thing of the past. The Mabandla Substation supports the greater KwaNobuhle area and parts of the Uitenhage industrial area, home to companies like VWSA. Mabandla is a 66 /22/11 kV substation, with 2* 66/11 KV and 2* 22 kV transformers.
Upgrades that are currently under way include the general refurbishment of the substation and the changing of the 11 kV and 22 kV switchgear that will be completed in June this year. This substation was built by Eskom in the early 1980’s and was handed over to the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in 1994. On completion of Phase One, the City will be able to guarantee consistent and reliable electricity distribution, which will also serve as a major boost to the Uitenhage industrial area, with the potential of attracting more investments to that area.
Speaking during a site inspection of the work done, Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Electricity and Energy, Councillor Luxolo Namette, said he was excited about the progress made, as the work will unlock a lot of economical spin-offs. “If we are a City that seeks to grow its economy and attract more investments, we need to invest wisely in our infrastructure. Reliable electricity is one of the key pillars to that. Uitenhage has been experiencing outages for years; indirectly this has cost us jobs that could have been created through companies that would have chosen Uitenhage as a City of choice. As we try to rebuild our economy beyond COVID-19, we need to make sure that all the economic support pillars are intact,” said MMC Namette.
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