Grand Central power outage: City Power reports supply fully restored
City Power reports that electricity supply has been fully restored at Grand Central Substation. Its statement, published on 15 October, concerns the named supplies serving Central Park, parts of New Road, Constantia and parts of Old Pretoria Road. The operator’s restoration report is the latest verified update for this incident. The exact switching time and the number of customers affected remain unknown.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: restored, according to the source · 15 October, 12:12 SAST: City Power reports Grand Central supply fully restored; exact switching time and customer total are unknown.
Source moment: 15 Oct 2026, 10:12 UTC (12:12 local time)
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City Power reports full restoration of the named Grand Central supplies.
The notice covers named areas; it does not establish restoration across all of Midrand or Johannesburg.
Exact outage onset, restoration switching time and customer total remain unknown.
What the restoration notice establishes
The operator published the statement at 12:12 SAST on 15 October. Publication time records when City Power issued this update; it is not an established time at which electricity was switched back on. The available evidence does not provide the exact start of the interruption either, so a precise outage duration cannot be calculated from the statement.
The reported restoration applies to the Grand Central supplies named in the incident record. Central Park and Constantia are listed, together with parts of New Road and parts of Old Pretoria Road. The qualification “parts of” matters: this update cannot establish the position along every section of either road or at every address in the surrounding area.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Named supplies
- Central Park, parts of New Road, Constantia and parts of Old Pretoria Road
- Reported status
- City Power reports full restoration of the named Grand Central supplies
- Affected customers
- Unknown
- Restoration timing
- Reported on 15 October; exact switching time unknown
An operator report with a defined local scope
Full restoration is attributed to City Power. It is not an independent inspection of every connection. Individual residual faults remain possible even after an operator reports that the named supplies are restored. The record does not provide an affected customer count, and no population total or wider regional restoration percentage can be inferred.
Grand Central Substation is distinct from Central Substation in the Johannesburg CBD. This restoration notice should therefore not be applied to that separate facility or its restoration target. A relationship to older Midrand faults is unresolved; this report does not combine those events or assign them a shared duration.
Backup planning after a reported restoration
The runtime calculator helps compare essential electrical demand with battery capacity, and the internet backup planner covers connectivity planning. These are preparation tools rather than checks of electricity at a particular property. The current incident record remains an operator-reported restoration with the original loss time and exact completion time unconfirmed.