Engineers restore power on Samui, Phangan

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Engineers restore power on Samui, Phangan

Published: 7 Dec 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

Electricity is back on Koh Samui and Phangan after engineers spent the night successfully restoring electricity, reports said.

Having been without power for three days, residents and tourists on the two islands in Surat Thani woke up with electricity back on at their homes, hotel rooms and businesses.

Channel 3 reported that power was restored at 4am on Friday, two hours after engineers tested the line connecting the islands with Surat Thani's mainland. The repairs finished at 2am, it added.

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kasper
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Discussion 18 : 11 Dec 2012 at 09.3418
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Funny how the article forgets to mentioned the 3 foreign engineers that were called in to tell the Thai repair guys how to fix the cables. Just a small thank you to those guys in the article would have been appropriate. Of course, hiding the fact that foreigners helped, will make it easier to uphold the illusion that EGAT knows what they are doing.
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Discussion 17 : 10 Dec 2012 at 12.0417
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disc 16
solar panels are so expensive here and also to ship in.
The cheapest generator you could buy on samui was 150,000 baht says it all
Also if they did do something too many hi so people would stop making money, go figure
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Discussion 16 : 07 Dec 2012 at 13.3916
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It's time they install wind turbines and solar panels for power on Koh Samui and Koh Pha Ngan. No more coal and natural gas power plants to pollute please !
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Discussion 15 : 07 Dec 2012 at 13.1815
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Good grief, the power cable is on dry land and it still took 3 days to fix it??? I bet the economic loss of 3 days without power far exceeds having a back up system to prevent another repeat in the future.
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Discussion 14 : 07 Dec 2012 at 12.4014
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The problem is that most of this stuff is run by people who dont know about the technology. Here in the south of Phuket we have EVERY day at least 3 power breakdowns usually only glitches for a few seconds but at least 2 times per week for more than 10 minutes. The problem is most of the people who handle electricity have no education on the subject they only do what they see at others. The other day I watched some guys installing power in some shops, they did exactly the opposite as everyone with education do, it's amazing. When commenting they say foreigners don't know but I studies this for 4 years and worked on the subject I surely know.
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Discussion 13 : 07 Dec 2012 at 12.3413
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The reaction to this emergency has been far too little and much too late.It is also appalling there does not seem to be any Committee in existence that can quickly assemble to address any disaster issues. Thank God we were not hit by a typhoon - yet! Also telling people what was going on can only be described as pathetic. Apparently there were announcements on Thai TV Channels, in Thai, which completely ignored the thousands of foreigners living and holidaying on the Islands. This is not a matter of only keeping ALL the public informed, but is a matter of human rights. Messages in English and Thai by loud speaker???
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Discussion 12 : 07 Dec 2012 at 10.3612
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Why there is no effort from the administration to promote the solar power for islands? For example Tokelau Island (New Zeeland) is now powered in electricity by photovoltaic solar panels. Moreover, the price of solar panels become cheaper week after week (spot price about 3 or 4$/watt few years ago, to less than 1$/watt today). For small powered equipments as led lighting, small water pumps, computers, LCD TV, telephones… the photovoltaic solar panels are greatly adequate.
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Discussion 11 : 07 Dec 2012 at 09.3211
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isn't it about time that some of the TRILLIONS of Baht that are spent in Thailand by foreigners every year was actually invested in making Thailand part of the 21st Century..not the 19th

I am sick of the almost daily power outages in the tourist resort where I live
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Discussion 10 : 07 Dec 2012 at 07.5910
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The blown-out part of the cable was not under the water but under 2m of dry land. Detailed investigation must be carried out on why this fairly new cable (about 7 yrs old) was short-circuit (at the connection point). Who did the work, and was the connection equipment/component up to the standard?
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Discussion 9 : 07 Dec 2012 at 07.289
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I am think Samui look better without electricity.
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