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View all search resultsPLN estimates North Sumatra blackout to end on Wednesday
State-owned electricity company PLN is working hard to restore electricity to affected regions in North Sumatra and expects electricity supply to resume on Wednesday or Thursday.
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A store in Padangsidimpuan city, North Sumatra, is seen with the lights on as it uses a generator on May 22 while others are blanketed in darkness after the Sumatra blackout. The blackout affected almost all provinces in Sumatra. State-owned electricity company PLN said the power supply had returned to normal on Sunday. (kompas.com/Oryza Pasaribu)
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tate-owned electricity company PLN has estimated that power, which has been cut off since June 4 in several regions in North Sumatra after 12 transmission towers fell in a storm, will resume on Wednesday.
PLN’s North Sumatra Transmission and Load Management Center Main Unit (UIP3B) general manager Amirudin said the company was expediting the repair of damaged transmission towers.
He said that Tower T21 in the Galang-Simangkuk 275-kiloVolt Extra High Voltage Aerial Transmission (SUTET) was one of the towers that suffered severe damage. The tower is prioritized for repair because it supplies the most electricity to Medan.
He said PLN was deploying its best personnel to repair all the damaged towers.
“We are doing our best effort, we try to complete the works in the next two or three days,” he said on Monday.
“So, our target is hopefully on Wednesday the electricity supply will return to normal.”
Amirudin said the electricity recovery will cover impacted areas such as the cities of Medan and Binjai as well as the regencies of Deli Serdang, Serdang Bedagai and Langkat.
