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A damnatory report on the Greater Letaba Municipality’s electricity network by the National Electricity Regulator (Nersa) proved a glaring contrast to the mayoral budget speech on achievements reached over the past five years. Nersa’s draft compliance audit of 2015 showed an urgent need to upgrade the network to avoid prolonged loss of supply to the Modjadjiskloof community. The report, added as Annexure A to this year’s budget documents, contains information about several conditions in the electricity that were non-compliant to Nersa’s demands. One of them was an alarming underspending of the maintenance budgets over the past five years. The GLM reserved 1,67% of the total electricity revenue for maintenance as opposed to
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the Nersa guideline of 6%. It was found that no maintenance schedule was available and it was evident that no preventative maintenance had been done for a long period of time. No single line diagrams or records of any formal inspections of the network were available. There was no power quality management system in place and quality of supply was not monitored. The Nersa report also stated that the condition of the network was in a neglected state. Substations were invaded by weeds, some were not locked and posed a safety risk to the public and some mini-substations were old and leaking oil. They also found rotten and leaning wooden poles,
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which should be replaced, as well as earth wires at poles cut off. More than fourty pictures of the faults in the network were included in the report. Another matter of urgency was the store for stocks and equipment. No spare transformers, mini-substations or switchgear were in stock. The GLM were given sixty days to comment on the draft report, whereafter a final report was delivered. The GLM was to outline any corrective action plans within 120 days after receiving the final report. Mr Frederick Pohl, a candidate in next week’s municipal elections, pointed out that the oil leaking substations and transformers posed a threat to the public as they could easily catch fire and explode. — Louis Roux louis@bulletin.us.com
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