By Mikhaila Crowie
8 May 2009
The City of Cape Town has earmarked almost R900 million to upgrade the metropole’s electricity network in the coming financial year.
This forms part of the R5.5 billion capital budget proposed for 2009 and 2010.
Cape Town’s electricity infrastructure consists of more than 70 main substations with transformers and switchgear, as well as thousands of kilometres of electrical cables criss-crossing the city from Atlantis and Gordon’s Bay, right down to Cape Point.
The electricity budget includes upgrades of main substations such as Retreat (R60 million), Rosmead Avenue (R52 million), Strand (R42 million), Roggebaai (R24 million), Parow South (R21 million) and at Langeberg in the northern suburbs (R18 million).
According to Alderman Ian Neilson, Mayoral Committee Member for Finance, Economic & Social Development and Tourism, the City cannot allow a second Eskom crisis to occur by waiting for equipment to fail before replacing it.
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