AMMAN —
The National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) received 122 complaints on Sunday,
and dealt with the problems quickly, said NEPCO Director and media spokesman
Mohamed Seifan on Monday, according to the website FactJo.
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Seifan said that
the electricity grid experienced an
“unprecedented” load on Sunday
night alone of 2,345 megawatts, as people resorted to electric heating devices,
adding that the company’s workers are in the field to fix problems.
He also advised
inspection of submersible pumps in buildings in low-lying areas, to ensure that
water does not reach electric cables, and rationing consumption to ease the
load on the grid.
NEPCO personnel are
ready to fix problems created by the weather conditions, and thus ensure a
continuous supply of electricity in the Amman, Zarqa, Madaba, and Balqa
governorates, he said.
The company said in
a statement that its trained cadres are ready to implement efficiently and
professionally the emergency plan that was prepared to deal with all
conditions, especially the low temperatures that currently affect the Kingdom,
keen to serve subscribers efficiently and competently.
As part of its
preparedness plan, the company provided all governorates within its
jurisdiction with a stock of materials and necessary spare parts, the statement
said, adding that its cadres work around the clock to ensure its annual plans
are implemented to the fullest to serve the country and the subscribers.
The company gives
high importance to maintaining the safety of citizens and workers, and focuses
on delivering electricity to subscribers relying on the modernization and
development plans it has begun to implement, in order to provide optimal
services and deal with any glitch that may disrupt the flow of electricity.
Over the past
months, in preparation for winter, the company said it implemented an
integrated maintenance program to the electrical network, automated
transmission stations for remote monitoring and control, washing the insulators
of medium-voltage pneumatic lines with distilled water and trimming branches of
trees in which its grid is nested.
The company also
implemented many electrical network development and expansion projects, at a
cost of more than JD40 million, within this past year, including building new
main and sub-conversion stations, extending new feeder construction lines, and
strengthening the existing ones. Through the plan, a special project has been
completed to develop the electrical network that serves subscribers in the
areas of Al-Saro, Taiba, Al-Jamarek, Al-Kharabsheh, Al-Mayseh, and Dahiyat
Al-Zohour, to avoid outages during the winter period, through setting up a new
main station next to Al-Ahliyya Amman University and converting several medium-pressure
overhead lines into terrestrial cables.
The company called
on citizens to ration consumption as much as possible during winter, not to
rely too heavily on electric heating, inspect submersible pumps on the ground
floors, urgently report the rise in water levels that may reach electrical
wires and meters, and to avoid installations that could be blown over by the
wind and cause power cuts.
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