Ferndale power outage: City Power reports full supply restored
City Power reports full electricity supply restored to customers in Ferndale and Vandia Groove in its Harley Substation notice of 1 November 2026. The operator links the cable fault to the outage reported on 30 October. Its restoration notice does not give an exact switching time or an affected-customer total.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: restored, according to the source · City Power reports full supply restored to Ferndale and Vandia Groove on 1 November; individual connections have not been independently checked.
Source moment: 01 Nov 2026, 09:42 UTC (11:42 local time)
In 20 seconds
City Power reports full supply restored to customers in Ferndale and Vandia Groove.
The Harley Substation notice concerns the cable fault reported on 30 October.
The exact restoration time and affected-customer total remain unknown; individual connections have not been independently checked.
Operator reports restoration on 1 November
City Power published the restoration notice at 11:42:05 SAST on 1 November, equivalent to 09:42:05 UTC. It names Ferndale and Vandia Groove as the areas where full supply has been restored. That timestamp identifies the operator’s announcement, rather than the moment electricity returned. No precise switching time is provided, so it cannot establish a uniform outage duration for affected homes or businesses.
The announcement follows a late-evening update on 31 October saying repairs would resume on the morning of 1 November after unforeseen challenges. Earlier that evening, City Power had said the team had been dispatched to Ferndale. Its morning update on 31 October had said the team would attend after completing work at Houtkoppen Substation. Those notices describe earlier response stages; the 1 November restoration notice is the latest operator position.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Named areas
- Harley Substation; Ferndale and Vandia Groove; affected customer total unknown
- Operator update
- City Power reports full supply restored on 1 November
- Timing
- Trip: night of 30 October 2026; exact onset and switching time unknown
Scope and remaining uncertainties
The report concerns the Harley Substation fault affecting Ferndale and Vandia Groove. It does not establish a wider restoration across Randburg or Johannesburg. The affected connection count and complete street list remain unknown. Individual connections have not been independently checked, and a suburb-level operator report cannot confirm the present condition of every address. Resident replies about Northriding or Houtkoppen do not establish their technical relationship to this fault.
City Power first acknowledged the Ferndale outage on 30 October and later attributed that night’s trip to a cable fault. Its early-hours notice on 31 October said safety concerns would delay fault location until the morning. The current account concerns that 30 October incident. It does not establish continuity with the separate, earlier Harley incident of 15 October, or prove that every affected address was continuously disconnected throughout the intervening period.
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