Alexandra power outage: supply restored in named avenue corridor
City Power says electricity has been fully restored to customers from 13th Avenue to 17th Avenue between London and Roosevelt in Alexandra. Its announcement was published at 17:54 SAST on 11 October. The operator attributes the interruption, reported that morning, to a faulty overhead line. The restoration statement applies to this named corridor, rather than all of Alexandra.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: restored, according to the source · 11 October, 17:54 SAST: City Power reports full restoration for the named Alexandra avenue corridor.
Source moment: 11 Oct 2026, 15:54 UTC (17:54 local time)
In 20 seconds
City Power reports full restoration from 13th to 17th Avenue between London and Roosevelt.
The operator attributes the interruption reported on 11 October to a faulty overhead line.
Exact onset, affected customer total and individual switching times remain unknown.
Restoration follows two partial-supply updates
The latest notice supersedes the earlier partial-restoration reports for the same corridor. At 15:09 SAST, City Power said 50% of the power supply had been restored. A further notice at 16:28 SAST repeated that percentage. The final announcement at 17:54 SAST reported full restoration. These are publication times for the operator updates, rather than verified switching times for individual homes.
The wording of the partial updates matters: City Power described a percentage of power supply. It did not publish a total number of affected customers, and the percentage cannot be turned into a number of households or people. The final update gives no address-by-address audit. Readers should therefore keep the named area and the operator attribution attached to the recovery report.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Named affected area
- Alexandra: 13th to 17th Avenue between London and Roosevelt
- Reported cause
- Faulty overhead line, according to City Power
- Affected customers
- Total unknown; supply percentage is not a customer count
- Latest operator announcement
- Full restoration announced at 17:54 SAST on 11 October
What the morning notice established
In a notice published at 06:43 SAST on 11 October, City Power acknowledged an unplanned interruption at Alexandra Substation affecting the 13th-to-17th Avenue corridor between London and Roosevelt. It said its team would investigate after completing work at Cydna Substation. That statement described the planned sequence of work; it did not establish a common fault between the two substations.
The precise outage onset, affected customer total and individual restoration times remain unknown. City Power subsequently identified a faulty overhead line, but this remains the operator’s account rather than an independent engineering finding. The restoration notice does not establish recovery for 4th to 8th Avenue, River Park or Far East Bank. Those areas are outside the scope of this report.
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