The City of Johannesburg MMC for Environment and Infrastructure Services, Cllr Mpho Moerane, through the Joburg Zoo, Theatre and City Power, launched the Festival of Lights at the end of November 2020 to ensure that the City’s festive mood is lit, and also to symbolise plans to ensure that every street, alley, and dark corner is lit across the City.
Roodepoort Project:
City Power will roll out three streetlights installation projects in Region C, Roodepoort.
Ward 85
Ward 89
Ward 97
Ward 126
The streets where the lights are installed are:
* Hendrik Potgieter,
* Christian de Wet Road,
* Poortview and
* Jim Fousche.
Total number of streetlights is 590.
The lights are a combination of both single and double spigot in all four roads.
The lights are LED, which saves electricity
The combined value of the streetlights is R10,106 293.
All four projects, which started in October, employed 57 local labourers - including three (3) CLOs.
The value to customer:
* safer neighbourhoods as the streets will be lit,
* safety to both road users, motorists and pedestrians.
Functional streetlights add to the safety of the community, with criminals operating less in well-lit areas. The project will also be beneficial to both EMS/JMPD officials who attend to accident scenes in the area, law enforcement and security agencies that operate at night in those areas, including local neighbourhood watch groups.
Streetlights across the City:
City Power has a fleet of over 300 000 street lights across the City that we are in charge of and maintain daily. These include the street lights in Eskom-supply areas such as Sandton, Soweto, Diepsloot and Orange Farm, among others.
To improve the efficiency of our street lights and ensure that they last longer, we have budgeted R1billion as part of a long term plan which includes the Retrofit Programme to install LED street lights.
The advantages of this type of LED lights, which we have installed here, include the fact that they are enormously energy-efficient, and have no UV emissions.
There are still other parts of the City that are, unfortunately, still dark, so we have allocated R125million for the installation of new street lights within the next three years, equating to 5,500 new street lights that we are going to install to close the darkness gap – especially in the townships and new suburbs.
City Power has a R1billion backlog on new streetlights installation to ensure every corner of the City enjoys the festival of lights.
