The City’s dedicated energy teams fixed 17 780 streetlight-related requests between 28 August and 8 October 2024. The data looks only at streetlight-related requests and doesn’t include other energy service requests attended to over the period in review. The City’s streetlight fixing interventions are making a material impact for brighter and safer communities. Read more below:
The City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, Alderman Xanthea Limberg, has been visiting public lighting work across the metro with the most recent areas being Khayelitsha and Manenberg. The City maintains more than 245 000 streetlights. As Cape Town heads into the summer months, the streetlight-related requests typically reduce somewhat compared with the winter months when a lot of storm-related damage can be experienced.
‘I salute our dedicated teams who are out there day and night, amid some of the worst weather and safety conditions as they work not only to implement our streetlight fixing interventions that we put in place to enhance turnaround times, but also all the other work to electrical infrastructure. Some of the interventions such as adding additional contractor services and deploying our Energy Safety Teams are paying off, but we are still very much dependent on our neighbourhoods and communities to help us reduce the impact of theft, vandalism and illegal connections on our electrical infrastructure. We can only create the safer and brighter communities we want if we work together. As always, we ask our residents to help us Protect Your Power and report suspicious activities anonymously to the City’s Public Emergency Communication Centre on 021 480 7700.’
Let’s ACT: Protect Your Power
Report suspicious behaviour to the City’s Public Emergency Communication Centre: 021 480 7700
*Note: the data looks at all streetlight-related service requests closed over a particular two-week period. Data is dynamic and new requests are constantly added to the already logged requests, as well as historic service requests. The data looks only at streetlight-related requests and does not include other energy service requests attended to over the period in review.
