Ants exploded, I opened a power plant to supply power to the world

Chapter 176 Chapter 175 Want to maintain the competitiveness of high-end brands? Then you have to use Zhetong Power

This was a decision made by Lin Zhe himself, to provide electricity to the coastal waters.

This is not only a real good deed, but also in line with the consistent development strategy of Zhetong Electric Power Group, which is to light up everywhere!

Even though there are only dozens of households and a border defense squad on Ma'an Island, and even if there are only three people in the watchtower located on the reef, Lin Zhe is willing to provide electricity for the three of them!

"Zhetong Electric Power?"

Squad Leader Yang had never heard of this name, but now the people from Zhetong Electric Power suddenly appeared in front of them and said that they would actually provide them with electricity. How could they not be excited?
If there were a stable electricity supply on the island, their boring but brilliant lives might have a little more color.

"Oh, thank you so much, but I have to ask my superiors for permission as usual. Please sit here and wait for a while."

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After all, the outpost belongs to the military management area, so if the staff of Zhetong Electric Power want to come in and check the planning of the line construction drawings or something, they have to ask for permission.

Yang Zhiwu made a phone call directly to their unit’s hotline.

The staff over there were also surprised when they heard the news. After all, it sounded unbelievable that the power company would go to Ma'an Island to provide electricity. What were they trying to do?
Could it be that they were using the name of power supply to have other intentions? Although the location of the outpost was clearly visible on the satellite cloud map, what if it was the other way around?
Therefore, the staff here continued to ask for instructions and asked Yang Zhiwu to wait for a while.

Then they checked the information of Zhetong Electric Power, which is a domestic enterprise, wholly owned by Chinese without any foreign background. The key is that its business and company are all in China.

After learning this, they felt relieved and notified Yang Zhiwu that he could receive them and arrange for the power supply.

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On the other side of the phone, Yang Zhiwu was also pacing back and forth in the sentry room. To be honest, he was unsure. Could he be denied this? Or what procedures should be followed in holding a meeting?

Anyway, he didn't have the courage to let the staff of Zhetong Electric Power in without the approval from his superiors.

They came all the way here, would they still come if they were left out in the open? This was an opportunity for their outpost.

After all, although he had long been accustomed to this inconvenient life in the past eight years, the opportunity was now in front of him. The seaside was very salty and humid, and Yang Zhiwu's knees had developed rheumatism over the years.

The pain often made him not want to get out of bed, but now that there is electricity, he can go to the town or the supermarket on land to buy an electric blanket during his holidays.

In this way, you can turn on the electric blanket on rainy days, at least to keep the heat in the quilt to dissipate the moisture.

In addition, their class can also watch TV tomorrow night, unlike the current TV sets where one has to watch a complete episode for ten days or half a month.

Often after watching it for a while, either there is no power or the voltage is unstable. In short, it is very troublesome.

The soldier next to him also spoke anxiously.

"Squad leader, we can't let the higher-ups deny us this. They've come all the way here, how can they come if we don't let them in?"

"That's right, squad leader, why don't you make another phone call and ask? Can you explain it?"

Just as several soldiers who were not on duty were talking, the phone rang. Yang Zhiwu grabbed the phone and spoke directly.

"Hello? I'm Yang Zhiwu, the border guard... Yeah... Got it."

Hearing the squad leader's response, several soldiers looked nervous, fearing that their superiors would not agree to this matter or would have to hold a meeting to study it and postpone it.

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Finally, after a brief minute, Yang Zhiwu put down the phone. At this moment, several soldiers were looking at him hopefully.

Facing them, Yang Zhiwu took a deep breath, revealed a look of disappointment, and then spoke solemnly.

"Comrades, let me tell you a piece of news. The plan by Zhetong Power to provide us with electricity has been approved by the higher-ups. Go and bring the staff from Zhetong Power here immediately!"

When the soldiers first saw Yang Zhiwu's expression and what he had said before, they thought the plan was a failure and were all extremely disappointed.

But after Yang Zhiwu finished speaking, cheers broke out in the entire outpost room!

"Squad leader, you did this on purpose!"

"Hahaha, now we have electricity and we can come back and watch TV after we finish our guard duty."

"Old Yang, I have to criticize you. You are simply disrupting the morale of the troops."

Amidst the laughter and chatter, several people quickly stood up and walked to the sentry post together.

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All day today, the staff of Zhetong Electric Power conducted line planning and exploration on Ma'an Island. They rested in the homes of villagers in the village that night and continued the planning work the next day.

There is not only one working group like this on Ma'an Island, but also on other islands. There are many islands, large and small, in the coastal waters that currently have no electricity.

There are a total of 24 islands with offshore border outposts stationed on the periphery, and this time Zhetong Electric Power has sent out eight exploration teams. The first step is to provide electricity to these 24 border islands.

In the next few days, the staff on Saddle Island surveyed the terrain and then headed to the next location, and the remaining exploration teams did the same.

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On the other side, in the Binhai urban area, with the arrival of a total of 500 people from the three major brother power plants to support Binhai, the work progress is now much faster. Zhetong Electric Power’s vehicles can be seen almost everywhere in the streets and alleys of Binhai.

In addition to the corporate electricity market, which has already accounted for more than half, the residential electricity market has also ushered in a wave of rapid development.

At present, in addition to factories, a large number of enterprises, including shops, hotels, shopping malls, etc., have all chosen Zhetong Electricity. Their choice of Zhetong Electricity’s opening of the market has had a reverse impact on the civilian electricity market.

For example, those high-end brand hotels in Binhai have all switched to power supply from Zhetong Electric.

In order to highlight their efforts in "environmental protection", their high-end hotels also use the Zhetong Electric Power logo like other companies.

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Le Weiqi came to Binhai on a business trip from Beijing. She works in a design unit and her salary and benefits are very high. Besides, she is a native of Beijing so her family conditions are naturally not bad.

When traveling, it is natural to choose high-end hotels.

After arriving at the hotel, pushing open the door of the room and putting down her things, Le Weiqi noticed a sign on the bedside table. Usually, this kind of sign would have the hotel's contact number or WiFi password marked on it.

At most, he would add a few words of blessing to the customers. Le Weiqi didn't take it seriously and just glanced at it.

But a cute ant head portrait caught her attention. After a closer look, she saw this sentence: "This hotel has been fully connected to the Zhetong Power Supply. Every choice you make is a contribution to the green blue planet~"

This made Le Weiqi a little curious. How could staying in a hotel be considered a contribution to environmental protection? Then she carefully read the following line of comments.

It is also explained in detail below that Zhetong Power is an environmentally friendly power company and every kilowatt-hour of electricity it produces is generated using biomass and environmentally friendly electricity.

Then Le Weiqi understood. No wonder the hotel said so. If you look at it this way, it is really environmentally friendly.

After all, the hotel's electricity usage is still exaggerated, much more than that of an ordinary household.

If we use this environmentally friendly method to generate electricity, it will indeed contribute to environmental protection.

Thinking of this, Le Weiqi picked up her mobile phone and took a photo of the hotel sign.

A girl like her who lives a good life naturally likes to share her life. A photo can not only show that she is living in a five-star hotel, but also show off a little.

The picture showed the words on the hotel sign, and then Le Weiqi typed out a text.

"Today is another day to contribute to Blue Star [Love]"

After editing, Le Weiqi also sent it out.

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The mentality of imitation and comparison among girls like them is quite serious, and it is also a common problem among the petty bourgeoisie.

After posting this circle of friends, Le Weiqi quickly received a lot of likes.

One of her childhood friends also saw this post, liked it, and immediately took out his phone.

Le Weiqi's childhood friend has similar conditions to her. They are both Beijing natives and have good jobs after graduation. They also happen to be going to Binhai on a business trip in two days.

The hotel had already been booked, but after seeing the post from her childhood friend, she immediately had an idea.

It would be fine if her best friend and childhood friend all stayed in high-end hotels, and it was not that she could not stay there, but the hotel her best friend and childhood friend stayed in used environmentally friendly electricity, which sounded very "environmentally friendly" and "trendy".

She had to follow this trend. Since she had to go to Binhai in a few days anyway, if she couldn't get this environmentally friendly electricity, she would just switch to another one that did.

After calling the hotel front desk, Le Weiqi's best friend and childhood friend also quickly asked about it.

"Hello, which electricity company does your hotel use?"

This question really stumped the hotel front desk. After all, I have been working at the front desk for several years and no customer has ever asked this question. Why should I care about the power supply company when staying in a hotel? I was a little surprised for a while, but I still answered it seriously.

"Hello, ma'am. Our hotel's power supply system is provided by Wentai Power. You don't have to worry about sudden power outages. Our hotel and Wentai Power have an exclusive power supply line, so this won't happen."

Although it felt strange, the hotel front desk subconsciously thought that the customers were worried that the power supply company was unreliable and that there would be sudden power outages while staying in the hotel.

After all, some customers have stronger work needs and need to use computers to work in the hotel.

But the customer's next answer on the other end of the phone stunned the hotel front desk again.

"Oh, I haven't heard of it. Since it's not the Zhetong Electric Power, it's just Environmental Protection Electric Power, forget it. I'll cancel the reservation now."

After saying that, Le Weiqi’s best friend hung up the phone, checked out of the room, and started looking for it on her phone again.

It’s not okay to book the same hotel as Le Weiqi, as it looks like too much imitation. You have to choose a different high-end hotel that also has environmentally friendly power supply.

After some searching, Le Weiqi's best friend and childhood friend soon found a hotel, the Binhai Wuzhou Hotel, which is the oldest five-star hotel in Binhai and its quality is naturally needless to say.

The key point is that it is specially marked on the booking interface that Wuzhou Hotel has now been fully connected to the environmentally friendly power supply of Zhetong Power, and will contribute to environmental protection together with customers.

After seeing this, Le Weiqi’s best friend and childhood friend were also satisfied and made a new reservation.

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The hotel front desk staff who had just received a call from Le Weiqi's best friend and childhood friend were also confused. Then she received several such calls in the following day, and she was not surprised at all in the end.

I reported this issue to the hotel manager when I got off work in the afternoon.

The manager of the hotel over there naturally learned about the situation from other people in the same industry, and then reported it to the hotel owner.

Now the trend in Binhai is that all shopping malls and stores use the environmentally friendly electricity from Zhetong Power. If their hotel does not use it, it would be a bit "outdated", and if others are using it but they don't, it would seem a bit "low-class".

Because of this, their hotel has already cancelled several reservations, and they think the same thing will happen again in the future.

The owner of this hotel also had a headache after hearing the report from his subordinates.

To be honest, how can he not see the market after so many years of doing business? Environmental protection is the general trend now, and it is like an arms race. If you don't use it, you will suffer.

The problem is that their hotel had signed a power supply agreement with Wentai Electric Power in the early years, and he had a good relationship with Wentai Electric Power's boss Tian Wentai. The penalty column in the agreement was even one million.

Other companies don't have liquidated damages or the liquidated damages are not that high. They can change the power company at will, but if their hotel wants to change, they have to pay a million yuan actually.

If he hadn't been reluctant to part with the one million, he would have switched to Zhetong Electric long ago.

After thinking it over, he sighed and made a decision. Business is business, and you can't give up long-term development for a little relationship, right?
Forget about the mid- and low-end hotels, but he runs a high-end hotel. Several well-known five-star hotels in Binhai have switched to Zhetong's environmentally friendly power supply. There is no benefit for him to keep holding on.

In the future, it is even possible that those rating agencies will downgrade their hotel ratings due to the issue of environmentally friendly electricity.

So his final decision was to pay the one million penalty and switch to environmentally friendly power supply from Zhetong Power to maintain the competitiveness of their hotel among the high-end coastal hotels.

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This is not just happening in this hotel, many other hotels and shops are following suit.

Moreover, some shopping malls directly connected to Zhetong Power in the name of the property owner. This is like the owners of a residential community joining Zhetong Power one by one and then suddenly the entire community joins Zhetong Power's power supply. This saves Zhetong a lot of trouble.

The group's performance has been booming in the past two days. Lin Zhe himself was not in the factory but appeared on Ma'an Island.

It has always been Lin Zhe's principle that one must leave a name behind when doing good deeds, so in addition to him and a few staff members accompanying him, there was also a film crew from the group's publicity department.

(End of this chapter)