BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua) -- State Grid Hunan Electric Power Co., Ltd. won recently applause from local farmers for its heartwarming power supply service under the scorching weather conditions.
Since early May, the company has dispatched by 30,000-plus times power supply vehicles and plenty of power workers to patrol the power lines and over 5,000 water pumps, pumping stations and power stations there.
By using drones, infrared temperature gauging devices and other advanced inspection devices, power workers of State Grid Hunan Electric Power and its branches and sub-branches helped ensure in a timely manner anti-drought power supply in Hunan.
For instance, despite the extremely hot weather in recent weeks, Xu Chaocheng and Li Zhou, staffs of Baofeng Power Supply Station in Shimen County of Changde City went as usual into a local orchard to check its water pump power lines and meters.
Welcomed by villagers in Shimen County, they helped the orchard and surrounding farm lands access electricity-powered water pumping facilities, which cost merely 30 yuan per time for irrigating the entire orchard now.
In the past, irrigation through gasoline generator-powered water pumping from the nearest village would cost them 120 yuan per time and local villagers generally praised these power workers for saving both money and attention for them.
While talking to local villagers, Xiong Wei, general manager of the power supply company in Shimen County under State Grid Hunan Electric Power, said that the firm extended its power supply service to riversides, pumping wells, and edges of fields to enlarge the area of irrigation by electricity-powered pumping facilities.
"We have been fully prepared for the anti-drought power supply campaign in this summer," said Peng Jiaqi, general manager of State Grid Changde Power Supply Company, stressing that the company already opened green channels for anti-drought power use.
With simplified reporting procedures for power facilities installation and "one-to-one" service in irrigation-related power demand and supply matching, the company further optimized power supply services in this summer farming season, not to mention the trendy payment ways for irrigation through scanning QR codes on State Grid’s online service platform, Alipay, WeChat and others.
(Edited by Duan Jing with Xinhua Silk Road, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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