More than 553,000 customers in the Central Highlands lost power due to floods

(Chinhphu.vn) - Prolonged heavy rain and widespread flooding have made power restoration difficult.

Continuous rain and floods over the past several days have made power restoration difficult.

As of 7 a.m. on November 20, 553,250 customers still had not had their power restored due to many grid lines and transformer stations being isolated, of which the number of customers without power had increased by more than 349,000 compared to the same time yesterday.

Since the flooding incident began, a total of 1,010,720 customers have been affected. EVNCPC units have made efforts to restore power to 457,470 customers (45.3%), the number of customers still without power accounts for 11.2% of the total number of customers of the Corporation.

Currently, EVNCPC has 11,562 distribution transformer stations that are flooded or have lost power. As of this morning, technical staff have restored 5,785 stations, while 5,777 stations are still inaccessible due to flooding. The estimated capacity that cannot be supplied is 283.6 MW, equivalent to 7.3% of the maximum capacity of the entire system.

According to localities, in Gia Lai, there are still 152,648 customers and 1,770 stations that have not been restored, with an estimated lost capacity of 72 MW; in Dak Lak , the situation is most serious with 276,033 customers and 2,728 stations, with an unsupplied capacity of 123.2 MW.

Khanh Hoa currently has 120,597 customers and 1,157 transformer stations affected. Of which, Khanh Hoa Power Joint Stock Company has 29,235 customers, 343 stations, and a capacity loss of 15.6 MW; Khanh Hoa Power Company (formerly Ninh Thuan ) has 91,362 customers, 814 stations, and a capacity loss of 66.1 MW.

In Da Nang alone, 3,972 customers and 48 transformer stations have not been supplied with electricity, with an interrupted capacity of about 1.8 MW.

Currently, EVNCPC's forces are staying close to the area to respond to floods and restore the power grid immediately after the water recedes to ensure safety.

NA

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