Electrician in Soweto You Can Trust
From prepaid meters and DB boards to wiring made safe after illegal connections, New Power Holdings keeps Soweto homes and small businesses powered properly. Registered, insured, with 15+ years and 5,000+ projects behind us.
The Electrician Soweto Households Rely On
Soweto is not one grid but two. Some streets draw from Eskom, others from City Power, and the line between them shifts from one suburb to the next. A good electrician in Soweto needs to know both systems, read the meter on the wall correctly, and work to the same SANS 10142-1 standard whichever utility feeds the stand.
We have spent years doing exactly that across Orlando, Diepkloof, Dobsonville, Protea Glen and Pimville. The work is honest and practical: a tripping board sorted, a prepaid meter fitted for a backroom, a burnt connection made safe again. Our electricians are registered with the Department of Employment and Labour, the company is fully insured, and we issue valid Certificates of Compliance when a job calls for one.
If your power keeps cutting or a plug has scorched, don't keep resetting it. Call 0861 995 088 and an electrician will talk you through it.
Prepaid Power Done the Right Way
Prepaid is the norm in Soweto, and for good reason. You buy what you need, there is no monthly surprise, and a landlord with backrooms or a second dwelling can stop carrying everyone's bill. The catch is that a meter only protects you if it is installed and registered correctly.
We handle prepaid meter installation in Soweto end to end: STS-compliant Hexing, Conlog and Landis+Gyr units on single or three-phase supplies, split keypads where the meter sits outside, and proper sub-metering so each tenant vends their own tokens. Every install is wired into a correctly protected circuit, not spliced onto an existing one.
For larger jobs — a new room, a shop counter, a full rewire after years of patch repairs — our electrical installation team in Soweto scopes the work, quotes it clearly and certifies it on completion. Need a price? Request a free quote and we will come and look.
Making Illegal Connections Safe Again
Illegal connections are a real danger on a shared network. Cables sized for one house end up carrying three, terminals overheat, and the damage rarely stays where it started — neighbouring meters, boards and plugs cook quietly until something fails or catches alight. When a household wants to get back onto a legal, safe supply, that is where we come in.
We disconnect the unsafe wiring, replace burnt cable, plugs and breakers, and put the home back on a properly earthed circuit with 30mA earth leakage protection on the DB board. After load shedding spikes have killed appliances, we also fit surge protection (SPDs) so the next switch-on doesn't take out your fridge or TV. Where you are selling or renting the stand, we test and issue a Certificate of Compliance through our COC service so the paperwork is clean.
Beyond the basics, our Soweto teams cover DB board upgrades, fault finding, electrical repairs and lighting installation inside and out. Small business owners working from home — salons, spaza shops, welding setups — lean on us for the kind of three-phase capacity and tidy wiring that keeps a venture running.
Just outside Soweto? We also serve Johannesburg and Roodepoort daily.
Soweto Electrical Questions, Answered
Yes. Illegal connections overload cables and burn out plugs, boards and meters. We disconnect the dangerous wiring, replace what has been damaged and put the supply back on a safe, properly protected circuit so your home is legal again.
We do this often in Soweto. An STS-compliant prepaid sub-meter lets each tenant or backroom buy their own electricity, so you stop subsidising the bill. We supply, install and commission Hexing, Conlog or Landis+Gyr units on single or three-phase supplies.
All of it — Orlando, Diepkloof, Dobsonville, Protea Glen, Pimville and the areas in between, across both Eskom and City Power supply zones. We work the area daily, so call-outs are rarely far off.
Where the work calls for it, yes. We are registered COC issuers, so any new installation or repair we sign off is tested to SANS 10142-1 and documented — important if you are selling or renting out the property.
Safe, Legal Power for Your Home
Book a prepaid meter, a repair or a full inspection. One registered team, fair pricing, work you can rely on across Soweto.