Nghe An Electricity Company strives to overcome damage after floods and storms, soon restoring power to the border district of Ky Son.

Heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorms and flash floods on the night of September 4, 2022 caused damage and affected the power grid system of the mountainous district of Ky Son, Nghe An province. Flash floods in many areas, causing landslides on many roads, traffic disruption, and power grid failures have interrupted the power supply to thousands of customers.

Landslide at Transformer Station No. 1 in Muong Xen town caused equipment damage.

According to initial statistics, the Ky Son Power Company's medium voltage grid had an incident at line 371A15.23; line 372A15.29. The low voltage grid had an incident at 4 distribution transformer stations Pieng Po, Xieng Thu, Muong Xen town, and Na village. Many electric poles were tilted, broken, and electric wires were broken and swept away by water. More than 14,000 customers lost power. Estimated damage was up to billions of dong.

Ky Son Power workers check and fix power grid problems after floods.

Immediately that night, after the flood passed, the leaders of Nghe An Power Company directed Ky Son Power Company to quickly assess the situation, develop a repair plan, mobilize 100% of human resources and materials to promptly go to the scene to handle the incident, replace damaged equipment on the power grid; and rebuild tilted and collapsed power poles to soon restore power to customers.

Ky Son Power workers fix broken poles caused by floods on the night of September 4 in Bao Nam commune.

As of 5:00 p.m. on September 5, 2022, Ky Son Power Company has restored power to about 13,000 affected customers. More than 1,000 customers in Huu Kiem and Bao Nam communes and some other areas still have no power due to flash floods causing landslides, and traffic routes are cut off, making it difficult to access the area.

It is expected that on the evening of September 5, 2022, Ky Son Power Company will reach the incident site and restore power to 100% of customers.

With the motto "4 on-site", Nghe An Electricity Company and Ky Son Electricity Company have made efforts to urgently deploy remedial measures to be able to restore power to serve people as soon as possible./.