Severe rolling blackouts have caused the demand for electrical appliance repairs to surge by triple digits, a report by a local platform connecting customers to specialised services has revealed.

Though electricians are experiencing an increase in workload because of electrical appliances breaking down from a sudden increase in voltage when power is restored, they say they are overwhelmed by load-shedding repairs as they have limited time to complete repairs when outages spike...

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