The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) in Loei has launched into a mission to relocate electrical transformers underground within the tourist-heavy Chiang Khan district. The initiative aims to prevent fire hazards within the district, which is thought for its century-old picket homes.
Bonus , who heads the native office of the Department of Public Works and Town and Country Planning, stated that the elimination of transformers from concrete power poles would additionally improve the stability of the power supply and tidy up the landscape by eliminating seen energy cables.
Chiang Khan, positioned adjoining to the Mekong River in the northeastern province, attracts between four and five million tourists yearly, producing over a billion baht in tourism-related revenue.
Praphan Srinuan, Deputy Governor of the Council of Engineers Thailand, reported that the PEA has surveyed the realm and drawn up designs for the underground transformers alongside the favored Chiang Khan Walking Street. The ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations and the Engineering Institute of Thailand have instructed transforming Chiang Khan into the first good city with low-carbon underground transformers.
Siriwit Pornpanwatcharadech, Deputy Director of the transmission system design division on the state utility, revealed that the PEA will utilise a transformer model developed by Chulalongkorn University. He expressed confidence that by minimising the chance of fires in wooden houses, security for residents, vacationers, and PEA workers shall be almost assured.
He additionally projected that this is able to increase native tourism and business activities, scale back carbon emissions, and increase usable green space.
Recalling the success of an identical move in the Siam Square space, Sombat Vanichprapa, a marketing consultant to the Chula Smart City project, said that placing transformers and energy cables underground had considerably improved security for pedestrians and made Bangkok’s metropolis centre a most well-liked destination for vacationers.
The underground transformer mannequin, which uses a low-carbon submersible transformer, acquired recognition on the 2023 Thailand Energy Awards and the 2023 ASEAN Energy Awards, stories Bangkok Post..