2013 Southern Vietnam and Cambodia blackout

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2013 Southern Vietnam and Cambodia blackout
Cup dien o Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh 22052013.JPG
Darkened Ho Chi Minh City skyline at 6:47 PM on 22 May
Date14:00,22 May 2013(+07:00) (2013-05-22T14:00+07:00)
Duration8 hours
Location19 southern provinces and the provinces of Bình Thuận, Ninh Thuận, Lâm Đồng and part of Cambodia. [1] [2] [3]
CauseTree brushing against a power line
Outcome8 million customers affected [4]
Property damage14 billion VND (initial estimate) [5]

The 2013 Southern Vietnam and Cambodia blackout was a power outage in the southern region of Vietnam on 22 May 2013, affecting millions of people.

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Immediate impact

Power went off at around 14:14 pm (UTC+7) on 22 May 2013.

Cause

A careless move of a truck deployed to plant trees in New Bình Dương City urban area is the direct cause for the massive power outage in the southern region of Vietnam. When moving a tree on Wednesday afternoon, the truck let the tree bump onto a line in the national power grid (500 KV).

Effects

This incident caused a massive blackout in 22 provinces and cities in the South of Vietnam. In fact, there has not been any kind of property insurance for these assets in case of unexpected massive and long outage. It even caused the electricity cut for the capital city of Cambodia. [6] [7]

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References

  1. "Cúp điện toàn miền Nam" [Power outage throughout the South]. VnExpress (in Vietnamese). 22 May 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  2. Thanh Bình. "Campuchia mất điện vì sự cố tại Việt Nam" [Cambodia loses power due to breakdown in Vietnam] (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  3. "Sự cố mất điện toàn miền Nam" [Power outage breakdown throughout the South]. Thanh Nien (in Vietnamese). 23 May 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  4. Kiên Cường; Hoàng Lan (25 May 2013). "8 triệu khách hàng ảnh hưởng bởi sự cố cúp điện miền Nam" [8 million customers affected by power outage breakdown in the South]. VnExpress (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  5. "Mất điện toàn miền Nam: Không có cách phòng ngừa?" [Power outage throughout the South: No way to prevent it?]. VietNamNet (in Vietnamese). 23 May 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  6. Accidental Blackout in 22 Southern Provinces of Vietnam, Vietnamica
  7. Vietnam Power Failure Hits Phnom Penh [ permanent dead link ], Cambodia Daily.