Bangkok power supply and maintenance

The years I have living in BKK now learned me that although the amount of distribution facilities and impressive high-voltage power lines all over the country the final delivery is very poor or is it just regional?

OK, I do not speak about the distribution in the outskirts where I live (Nimitrmai Rd.), that should not be fair or??

After the approach of a bit dark sky am looking worried, thinking oh, oh again? Or when I am not at home and I phone to my restaurant in the evening they reply already with an “it is raining cats and dogs so not necessary to go home: a big chance no light”.
A couple of raindrops and/or a strong wind and that’s it. Well, we may not moan, the “repair” never takes more than a couple of hours.

The ruining effect at motors of airco and the fridge (because of the power-cuts of some seconds or the frequent waves in between 120 and 240 Volts) we accept patiently and the only computer hardware which suffers is the UPS.

As I said, the repair team is moving and they suffer with me, working in the dark and heavy rain. Unfortunately the Company seems not to be willing to PREVENT the problems (means investment) but rather like to have the costs afterwards. Proof for that is when I look at a pole for the high-tension line feeding the small distribution-transformers. This pole I have seen for more than two years now under an angle of about 20-30 degrees with a heavy load of cables pulling on three sides. Prevention? No. Repair? Yes, when the whole lot is coming down causing a main power cut for a long time and the risk of injured or even dead people on the road. They do not seem to have responsible inspectors reporting expected problems.

No, the most annoying is the same problem in a busy District where one does not expect such nonchalance. Yesterday around 16.00 h. power-cut again (Koobon Rd.) so fridges, freezers, airco and light off. Nicely phoning after some time learned us that “we were the first to inform them” although the whole row of shops and other businesses were without electricity. Well, let us believe that the Thai are afraid to phone when there is a power-cut but I think it was more an excuse to be late because “we have a lot of problems to solve now”. They left us until around 21.00 h. in the dark with the result that the restaurant was empty for the Friday-evening. And after September we cannot afford a lot of losses because since that time local businesses (we have more) went down drastically.

Oh, it just happened again without having rain and wind, well I may not complain: it was only a half minute and the UPS buffered! Mai pen rai!