In southern Vietnam, firms experience power blackout after strong winds throw metal sheets on substation
Tuesday, July 18, 2023, 13:24 GMT+7
Powerful winds blew several metal roofing sheets off a company and flung them onto a power substation, causing a power outage for more than 100 enterprises in southern Dong Nai Province, a neighbor of Ho Chi Minh City, on Monday afternoon.
Dong Nai Power Company on Monday night confirmed the incident and said that the firm fixed the problem at the An Binh 110 kV transformer station and restored power for the sheer number of businesses.
Heavy rains, coupled with thunderstorms, battered many parts of Bien Hoa City in the province at 4:00 pm on the same day.
Strong winds lifted the metal roofing sheets off the Mekong Logistics Company building located in the Bien Hoa 2 industrial park and blew it onto the nearby transformer station, damaging it.
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| Electricians fix the problem to restore power. Photo: An Binh / Tuoi Tre |
Over 110 enterprises at the industrial park suffered a power blackout, disrupting their production activities.
Dong Nai Power Company quickly sent several workers to the scene to address the mishap.
Power was back to these firms at 8:50 pm.
At 4:27 pm on the same day, due to heavy rains, a tree fell into a power line, causing an electricity cut for some 5,000 households in Long Khanh City.
Some four hours after efforts in fixing the problem, power was restored at 8:15 pm.
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