Sundowner and Northriding AH power outage: City Power reports 90% supply restored
City Power reports that 90% of supply has been restored at Northriding Substation, while three load centres remain off in Sundowner and Northriding AH. The operator’s 25 October 2026 update describes partial restoration. It does not provide a customer total or a time for restoring the remaining supply.
Status of this incident
Partial / reduced supply
Last known status: partly restored · City Power reports partial restoration: 90% of supply restored at Northriding Substation, with three load centres remaining off in Sundowner and Northriding AH.
Source moment: 25 Oct 2026, 09:40 UTC (11:40 local time)
In 20 seconds
City Power reports 90% of supply restored at Northriding Substation.
Three load centres remain off in Sundowner and Northriding AH, according to the operator.
The cause, exact outage start and restoration estimate remain unknown.
What the partial restoration update establishes
The operator’s statement identifies Sundowner and Northriding AH as the areas where three load centres remain without supply. The 90% figure refers to supply restored at Northriding Substation. The available statement does not define that percentage as a share of customers, homes or residents, so it cannot be converted into an affected-person count.
Three load centres are infrastructure units, rather than a count of individual connections. The report does not identify how many customers each one serves or give street boundaries for the remaining interruption. It therefore does not establish which individual addresses have been restored or remain off.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Reported areas
- Sundowner and Northriding AH
- Operator-reported restoration
- 90% of supply at Northriding Substation; three load centres remain off
- Restoration estimate
- Unknown for the remaining load centres
Timing and the remaining uncertainty
The statement’s recorded last-edit timestamp is 11:40 SAST on 25 October, equivalent to 09:40 UTC. The original publication time is unknown. That edit time is not an outage-start time and does not establish when the reported restoration occurred. The exact onset of the interruption remains unverified.
The available update does not establish the fault’s cause or give an estimated restoration time for the three remaining load centres. A connection to older faults in the area remains unresolved. The report should therefore be read as a specific partial-restoration update, without assuming a continuous outage from an earlier incident or a new recurrence. Further operator evidence is needed to confirm full restoration.
Planning while some supply remains off
The runtime calculator can help estimate battery endurance for essential devices. The internet backup planner and grid-down essentials guide provide preparation context. These resources do not confirm whether an individual address has electricity or predict when its supply will return.