Industria and Riverlea power outage: City Power reports 96% of supply restored
City Power reported at 21:55 SAST on 13 November that 96% of supply had been restored after an outage affecting Bosmont, Industria, Riverlea and Paarlshoop. One load centre remained off because of access difficulties.
Status of this incident
Partial / reduced supply
Last known status: partly restored · City Power reported 96% of supply restored, with one load centre still off because of access difficulties.
Source moment: 13 Nov 2026, 19:55 UTC (21:55 local time)
In 20 seconds
The utility named four areas in its report about the loss of several distributors.
City Power reported 96% of supply restored. It did not give a restoration time for the remaining load centre.
The restoration figure in the separate Longdale entry applies only to that outage.
What City Power reported
City Power’s 17:15 SAST bulletin said a preliminary investigation had found that several distributors had gone out of service. It named Bosmont, Industria, Riverlea and Paarlshoop. The bulletin did not give a customer count or say when supply first went off.
At 20:30 SAST, City Power said operators were on site investigating the cause in the same four areas. It did not name the individual distributors, confirm the cause or provide a restoration estimate. Check the utility’s next notice for an update about a specific area.
In its later 21:55 SAST update, City Power reported 96% of supply restored for the Industria Substation outage and said one load centre was still off because of access difficulties. It did not name that load centre, give the number of customers still affected or explain how it measured the percentage of supply restored.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Areas named by City Power
- Bosmont, Industria, Riverlea and Paarlshoop.
- City Power’s 21:55 SAST update
- 96% of supply restored. One load centre remained off because of access difficulties.
How this differs from the Longdale update
The 17:15 bulletin also listed a 12 November outage in Longdale in a separate entry under Industria Substation. City Power gave 77% restoration progress for that entry. That figure describes Longdale and does not give the restoration progress for the four areas in this report. The bulletin did not establish a link between the two entries.
What to do while you wait for an update
If you are in one of the named areas, use City Power’s latest notice to check for any address details or an estimate before making plans around a return of supply.
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