Thanh Hoa Power Company and Northern Power Corporation are currently operating a power grid system spread across all terrains from coastal areas, plains, midlands to mountains. With complex terrain, violations of power grid corridors are mainly: Planting perennial trees under power lines, flying kites, cutting, pruning, carrying trees, and constructing works that violate power grid safety corridors.

Thanh Hoa Electricity Company workers distribute electrical safety handbooks to students.

To effectively implement the work of ensuring the safety corridor of the power grid, Thanh Hoa Electricity Company has focused resources on investment, repair, cleaning, maintenance, and upgrading the power grid system; regularly inspecting and reviewing the power grid corridor, promptly detecting existing problems and requesting affiliated units to promptly handle them. For some violations, along with coordinating with local authorities to handle them, the Company has intervened with technical measures such as: Moving the power line, increasing the sag of the conductor, replacing bare wires with coated wires, installing offset beams... At unsafe locations, electricity workers will be directly present at the scene to instruct the people living nearby on necessary safety measures to prevent and report to superiors for handling.

Thanh Hoa Electricity Company workers cut trees, clear corridors, and ensure grid safety.

In particular, identifying propaganda as one of the important solutions, Thanh Hoa Electricity Company has coordinated with authorities at all levels and units to organize various types of propaganda, disseminating legal regulations on electrical safety and protection of power grid safety corridors to a large number of people. In addition to coordinating with media agencies, the Company has organized propaganda sessions in many villages, residential areas, schools, etc. With the synchronous implementation of solutions, the work of ensuring power grid safety corridors in Thanh Hoa province has received the support of the people and achieved important results.

From April 2022 to April 2023, the number of electrical accidents decreased to 3 (a decrease of 7 cases, equivalent to a decrease of 70% compared to the same period last year); the number of incidents due to corridors decreased to 50 (a decrease of 666 cases, equivalent to a decrease of 93% compared to the same period last year); 101,463 trees inside/outside the grid corridor that were at risk of causing grid incidents were pruned; 3 violations of the corridor and 24 violations of the phase-to-ground distance were reduced. Along with that, the situation of sudden power supply interruptions due to grid incidents has also improved significantly, ensuring the production and business plans of companies, enterprises, production facilities and people's lives, bringing customer satisfaction to the electricity industry.

Currently, the North is entering the hot season, with complicated weather developments in the summer of 2023, electricity supply is becoming more difficult. To ensure safe and uninterrupted electricity supply, Thanh Hoa Electricity Company will synchronously deploy technical and operational solutions; along with that, promote propaganda on economical electricity use, comply with solutions on ensuring safety of power grid corridors.

Article and photos: KHANH AN