“The reconnection of the Pangkalan Brandan-Langsa transmission line is a vital milestone in Aceh’s electrical energy restoration. This line serves because the spine of the Sumatra-Aceh interconnection. The restoration performs an important function within the subsequent section of complete system restoration,” PLN President Director Darmawan Prasodjo stated on Wednesday.
The transmission line was disrupted as a result of flooding and landslides that struck northern Sumatra in late November. This disruption remoted Aceh’s energy system from the Sumatran spine electrical energy system.
The profitable restoration of the road was recorded on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. native time.
Prasodjo detailed that the restoration was carried out by establishing emergency towers at a number of transmission factors affected by flooding and landslides, permitting the Pangkalan Brandan-Langsa line to soundly resume operation.
Following the restoration, PLN is re-operating the facility crops, significantly the Nagan Raya steam energy plant (PLTU).
This course of will progressively restore Aceh’s electrical energy provide, with optimum operation anticipated to take roughly 48 hours to account for warm-up, system synchronization, and efficiency testing, Prasodjo remarked.
In response to him, these steps should be accomplished earlier than growing the system load to take care of dependable energy circulate and keep away from additional disturbances.
“Electrical energy restoration should be carried out sequentially. As soon as the interconnection is safe, we are going to start working the facility crops to make sure optimum provide and dependable system assist,” he defined.
For the following section, the electrical energy provide can be progressively distributed to the distribution community by means of 20 foremost substations, 558 feeder items, and 15,717 distribution substations serving communities all through Aceh.
To assist all the restoration course of, greater than 1,600 PLN officers stay on standby till the post-disaster electrical energy restoration in Aceh is full, he emphasised.
As well as, he talked about that components of Aceh are nonetheless inundated with mud and water, requiring the normalization of the facility community to be performed fastidiously to stop dangers to the general public.
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Translator: Putu Indah S, Resinta Sulistiyandari
Editor: Arie Novarina
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