Hi Ciarra,
Last time we had a power cut I made some enquiries with a pal of mine at Eskom and he did a quick investigation. I always though it odd that we in the estate have power cuts yet when I look across at Meyersdal they don’t. He came back to me and said that our estate and others in the “Booysen group” nearby all operate off the same substation/transformer installed by the developer. He did say that this unit is insufficient for the number and demand from the dwellings that all have to draw power. We are all very quick to blame Eskom , however, this appears not to be the case always.
We should all be asking why this is especially now that there are another 62 dwellings at the crusher site as well as the 20% of dwellings in our estate not yet built. Added to this, although I am still investigating, I believe that our neighbours across Michelle Avenue will be also drawing power of our grid and so this problem will only become worse.
Is it reasonable or just, that we having built our upmarket homes should be now be expected to spend a lot of money on generating sets when 99,99% of Alberton residents find this unnecessary?
I note that the developer’s house has and always has had emergency generator power- perhaps because he was aware that this would happen.
It would have been kind to advise new owners to build with provision for generators but perhaps this is not a very good sales feature.
I will investigate further and endeavour to corroborate my findings and report back.
Cheers
Blou Bulle!!
