Safety rules
Observing the simple presented rules, you shall benefit from the advantages of electricity use under comfort, quality and safety conditions.
We have the obligation and the duty to observe the regulation referring to the safety, quality and continuity of electricity supply to all customers, protecting the security and health of each of us and the environment.
Thus, we create protection and safety area for the normal operation of the energy capacities (overhead lines and underground cables, substations and posts of transformer) and in order to avoid putting the people, the goods and the environment at risk.
The protection and safety areas are determined for each capacity compliant with the technical rules elaborated by the competent authority (ANRE).
The legal easement right is set forth for the land owned by third parties that is included in the protection and safety areas.
Information about wires and insulators
Metals (copper and aluminium) and water are good electricity conductors. That is why, all cables transmitting electricity from the power plants to the transformer stations, then to transformers and in the end to buildings contain metal.
If a person touches an electrical cable or a broken device, it is possible that electricity chooses the shortest way and goes through the person’s body to the ground. Even if the person does not directly touch the ground, but it touches an object that has a direct contract with the ground, either a tree or a ladder, the respective person may unwillingly become an electricity conductor.
Water is an excellent electricity conductor. The human body contains 70% water and it may immediately become an electrical conductor. When we touch a electrical device, we should not have our hands wet or we should not stay in water or on wet ground. For this reason, electrical equipments have to be kept away from bathtubs and sinks. Water should not be used to extinguish a fire started in an electrical installation due to its capacity of being a good conductor. You should use fire extinguishers.
Glass, rubber, plastic are perfect insulators. Most of the cables are made of conducting materials covered in insulating materials like rubber or plastic. Insulated cables protect us when we tough an electrical device.