Just had the following flash from my condominium management.

NO POWER (Jomtien soi 6-12)

No power in Jomtien area on Jan 20, 2011 from 08:15 - 17:00 hour.

The Regional Power Authority of Jomtien is going to upgrade their electricity distribution line.

Edited January 18, 201115 yr by Basil B

Two month ago they needed nearly 2 hours longer to finish there work. Lets hope they are a little faster this time.

another great reason to live in Chomtien............

This is crazy. There's absolutely no reason for such a long planned outage.

The last time they dug up the old poles, before they installed the new ones. Any normal power company, would install a temporary supply route, possibly on the far side of the road.

Then take out the old poles and cables. Put in the new poles and cables, transformers or whatever. I hour per connection change, should be more than adequate.

But this is Thailand.

another great reason to live in Chomtien............

Sure is, always good to have an upgraded power supply !

Might be related to the new Thappraya Rd/ 2nd Rd construction. The electric and phone lines are to be moved under ground. If I recall that was one of the excuses for the delays in construction. The wait for PEA to install electrical control junction boxes.

AMAZING THAILAND

Mai pen ray .AS long as its back by March when i go down there again .

Power came back at 6.10 pm. They did it exactly the same way again. Shut down, take out old poles. Install new poles and rewire. I counted 20 cranes, all with electric company orange colour.

Yes, we had another crane convention in Jomtien.

Amazing country.