Vinh City Electricity launched a campaign to educate customers on safe and economical electricity use during Tet.

In the days leading up to the Lunar New Year, when people’s demand for electricity increases, ensuring electricity safety is an urgent issue. Some organizations and individuals erect poles, erect flagpoles, use metal-coated fireworks, release sky lanterns, flying saucer toys, and fly kites, which are at risk of getting caught in power lines and transformer stations, disrupting the power supply and causing fires, which are always a risk to people’s electrical safety.

Vinh City Electricity staff marched on the streets to promote customers to use electricity economically and safely. Photo: Thanh Le

To be proactive in prevention work, ensure continuous and stable power supply, and avoid risks of fire and electrical accidents that may occur during the Lunar New Year, Vinh City Electricity has launched propaganda on many streets in Vinh City about the recommendations on safe electricity use and fire and explosion prevention during the Lunar New Year of Nghe An Electricity Company.

Thereby, contributing to raising awareness of safe, economical and efficient use of electricity in the community; encouraging the active participation of customers and the community in using electricity. Thereby creating a widespread dissemination of skills and solutions for safe, economical and efficient use of electricity; reducing living expenses for families and businesses, reducing pressure on electricity supply for the electricity industry, saving costs for society, contributing to environmental protection and ensuring national energy security.

Propaganda and dissemination on loudspeakers of recommendations on safe use of electricity and fire and explosion prevention during the Lunar New Year. Photo: Thanh Le

To promote customers to use electricity economically and safely during Tet, Vinh City Electricity has sent notices to the People's Committees of wards and communes in the city about ensuring continuous, stable and safe power supply during the Tet holiday of Quy Mao in 2023. Propaganda and dissemination on loudspeakers about the protection of high and low voltage power grid systems to raise people's awareness of the role and importance of the power grid system.

Timely detect, prevent and handle violations of electrical safety regulations as stipulated in Decree No. 14/2014/ND-CP and Decree No. 134/2013/ND-CP of the Government regulating administrative sanctions in the field of Electricity, using energy economically and effectively, and at the same time preventing all acts that risk leading to power grid incidents such as: erecting poles, hanging lanterns, flashing lights, advertising lights and other objects within the scope or at risk of affecting the power grid safety protection corridor.

The campaign aims to raise awareness of safe, economical and efficient use of electricity in the community. Photo: Thanh Le

Flying kites, shooting guns, shooting crossbows, releasing sky lanterns or any other objects into the equipment of the power line causing power grid problems. Disassembling equipment, structures of power poles, climbing power poles without permission. Forms of causing fires and explosions, burning fireworks, confetti with metal wires and other forms of encroachment that endanger power lines,...