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== Resource Center Layout==<br />
This resource center focuses on basic RA concepts, methods, and metrics, as well as more application-focused topics such as study tool choices and methods to assess the impact of certain technology classes. Each of the links below brings you to a dedicated section for each of these issues, faced practitioners when conducting adequacy studies. <br />
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===What is Resource Adequacy?===<br />
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<span style="font-size:120%;">'''Read More'''</span><br/><br />
[https://e-cigre.org/publication/715-the-future-of-reliability-definition-of-reliability-in-light-of-new-developments-in-various-devices-and-services-which-offer-customers-and-system-operators-new-levels-of-flexibility CIGRE, “The future of reliability - Definition of reliability in light of new developments in various devices and services which offer customers and system operators new levels of flexibility,” Technical Brochure No 715, 2018.]<br />
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[https://www.nerc.com/comm/Other/Adequate%20Level%20of%20Reliability%20Task%20Force%20%20ALRTF%20DL/Final%20Documents%20Posted%20for%20Stakeholders%20and%20Board%20of%20Trustee%20Review/2013_03_26_ALR_Definition_clean.pdf North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), “Definition: Adequate Level of Reliability for the Bulk Electric System,” March 2013.]<br />
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[https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002006692 Electric Power Research Institute, “Capacity and Energy in an Integrated Grid”, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2015, 3002006692.]<br />
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Resource adequacy (RA) is an assessment of whether the current, or projected, resource mix is sufficient to meet capacity and energy needs for a particular grid. The resource mix includes all resources able to provide energy, capacity, or flexibility to the system, including traditional centralized thermal, large-scale wind and solar power, and distributed resources, including demand response and energy efficiency programs. RA assessments are used to identify potential shortfalls in the availability of resources across different time frames, from long-term planning (5 to 20+ years), to seasonal and day-ahead assessments. As the RA look-ahead time approaches real-time operations, options to address identified shortfalls become fewer and more expensive. <br />
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Reliability is considered to have two main components: adequacy and security (also commonly referred to as deliverability). The latter ensures that the grid is able to maintain power flow and quickly recover stability after disturbances.<br />
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===What does it mean to have adequate resources?===<br />
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RA criteria are probabilistic, meaning that any given system that meets such criteria is expected to have sufficient supply and demand-side resources to meet periods during which scarcities are more likely to arise, i.e. peak system demand, with a certain level of confidence. Resulting from the probabilistic nature of adequacy criteria, a system that is planned for adequacy may still experience temporary, and rare, periods of scarcity, some of which may lead to involuntary load shedding. Load shedding refers to the interruption of customer load to balance supply and demand, all while ensuring that sufficient operating margins remain available to respond to unforeseen disturbances and contingencies.<br />
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Adequacy criteria intrinsically recognize that some periods of scarcity may occur, albeit at a very low probability. Typically, scarcity events occur during times when a confluence of system conditions arise with a low likelihood of occurrence in combination. These combinations of conditions are generally considered so rare, that planning for them is not economically justifiable. In fact, certain power systems derive their adequacy criteria economically, searching for the limit of cost-justifiable actions to ensure reliability.<br />
Whether searching for an optimal level of adequacy, or projecting resource needs to meet an adequacy target, it is critical that a realistic range of conditions is considered in RA assessments, with some being beyond past experience.<br />
It should be noted that loss of load resulting from external factors such as storm damage, wildfires, or other natural disasters that interrupt delivery of power are not currently considered in resource adequacy assessments. <br />
===Who is responsible for resource adequacy?===<br />
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Setting adequacy requirements, assessing adequacy, procuring capacity, and contracting, are all distinct tasks, even though they are intertwined, and all relate to ensuring sufficient capacity. <br />
Adequacy standards and requirements normally originate in laws, regulations, or license agreements. State public utility commissions and other regulators may hold RA proceedings and approve requirements, standards, and the actions necessary to secure adequacy. <br />
RA assessments are conducted by a variety of entities. In regions with centralized wholesale markets, they may be conducted by independent system operators (ISOs), transmission system operators (TSOs), regional security coordinators (in Europe), or regulators, irrespective of who may be responsible for ensuring adequacy. In other regions, utilities are directly responsible for assessing and ensuring adequate supply, using methods and criteria subject to approval by regulatory and other authorities.<br />
In the structured-market areas, there are three primary classifications of methods by which capacity is secured: 1) centralized capacity markets (e.g. PJM), 2) decentralized or regional capacity procurement (e.g. California) and 3) no explicit capacity markets (“Energy Only” markets such as in Texas).<br />
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===How is resource adequacy changing?===<br />
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[https://www.nerc.com/pa/RAPA/gads/Pages/GeneratingAvailabilityDataSystem-(GADS).aspx North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Generating Availability Data System (GADS).]<br />
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[https://www.entsoe.eu/outlooks/midterm/ European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E), Mid-term Adequacy Forecast. ]<br />
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[https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/SitePages/Home.aspx National Grid Electricity System Operator, Electricity Market Reform.]<br />
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[https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002013488 Electric Power Research Institute, Considering Generator Cycling in Resource Adequacy. EPRI: 2018, 3002013488.]<br />
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[https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002010821 Electric Power Research Institute, Developing a Framework for Integrated Energy Network Planning (IEN-P). EPRI: 2018, 3002010821.]<br />
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Until recently, RA in most systems referred to having sufficient planned capacity (traditionally, dispatchable generation) to meet the expected peak demand over a study period, which may range from months to years or decades. Several factors are impacting the ability of planners to assess resource adequacy. <br />
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'''Changing Generation Mix.''' There is a growing diversity of technologies for power generation, from traditional thermal generation, i.e. coal, nuclear, and natural gas-fired generation, to weather-dependent renewable generation such as hydropower, wind, and solar. The latter vary widely in their ability to produce electricity to meet demand. Additionally, demand-side resources, such as controllable, or deferrable demand, as well as energy storage resources, can also contribute to RA, although their contributions may be more complex to evaluate compared to other resources.<br />
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'''Changing Demand Characteristics.''' There are a number of factors that can impact demand characteristics. Improving energy efficiency, for example, affects future projections of energy demand. The growth in certain types of generation, i.e. solar power, also affects load shapes, creating new types of stressful periods, large net-load ramps can particularly stress systems if generators cannot respond quickly, even if there is sufficient capacity installed. Electrification of various parts of the economy also changes load shapes and magnitudes by impacting electricity consumption, but also by providing demand-side flexibility. Furthermore, climate change impacts on demand should also be considered, particularly in studies with greater look-ahead horizons.<br />
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'''Energy-Limited Resources.''' The evolution of RA assessment is also shifting from traditional capacity-only considerations, towards including both available capacity and energy supply. Although hydro-dominated systems have historically seen this dual need for capacity and energy, it is becoming increasingly present in traditional thermal-dominated systems as certain modern resources, like batteries and demand response, are energy-constrained depending on their previous usage.<br />
To produce a more accurate picture, RA models are becoming more sophisticated by including all the above elements, as well as transmission capacity, fuel availability, and other factors. The very nature of what constitutes an adequate system is increasingly an open question in the era of flexible demand. These changes are discussed in the later section on challenges.<br />
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===Is the risk of capacity shortages only during the peak demand period?===<br />
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<span style="font-size:120%;">'''Read More'''</span><br/><br />
[https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002007018 Electric Power Research Institute, Program on Technology Innovation: Capacity Adequacy and Variable Generation, Palo Alto, CA: 2016, 3002007018.]<br />
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[https://www.nerc.com/pa/Stand/Pages/ReliabilityStandards.aspx North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). Standard EOP-003-1— Load Shedding Plans.]<br />
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While the annual peak demand is most likely the period of highest risk, capacity shortfalls may also occur at other high daily peaks and in the period surrounding the peak hours. Some systems experience peaks in both the winter and the summer, reflecting heating and cooling load. <br />
Increasingly, the greatest likelihood of a capacity shortage occurs at the peak net-load interval. Net load represents the “net” demand not served by wind and solar generation, and which must be met by traditional resources. Risk can also arise during spring and fall when maintenance outages typically occur.<br />
In order to better understand system firm load shedding risk, modelling and assessing RA is often conducted using hourly data covering many possible demand scenarios, rather than just focusing on the daily peak. The importance of considering scenarios other than peak demand is highlighted in events such as the 2020 summer rolling outages in California, where shortages occurred at a time that did not coincide with the typical peak demand period of either day or year.<br />
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===What happens when a real-time capacity shortage is declared?===<br />
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As system operators forecast a capacity shortage risk, they may take several actions to address it, including:<br />
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# Days ahead, market notices about the expected grid conditions are issued to market participants;<br />
# When possible, plants undergoing non-essential planned outages are recalled into service, and new outages are deferred;<br />
# Support from neighboring regions may be requested;<br />
# Public conservation notices may be issued depending on the magnitude of the forecasted shortfall;<br />
# Resources contracted for “capacity adequacy” are notified, and those that take a comparatively long time to come online are instructed start-up such that they’re online when required; and <br />
# Distribution network operators may be notified of the need to implement conservation voltage reduction.<br />
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As conditions evolve these actions are updated. At the day-ahead and intra-day stages, forecasts are regularly updated to reflect changing demand and renewable production positions. If available generation, storage, import, and demand-response capacity is insufficient to meet operating reserve plus forecasted demand, scarcity pricing may be invoked. In scarcity periods, energy-market prices often increase reflecting the tightened supply/ demand balance and reach market ceiling levels (e.g. 9,000 $/MWh, 1,000 €/MWh). <br />
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As a real-time scarcity event worsens, the available mitigating actions may reduce to only load shedding. Expected production, demand schedules, and grid topology are analyzed for congestion and energy deliverability issues. Should an operational threshold be reached (typically a shortfall of operating reserves), coordinated, rolling, involuntary interruption of loads is conducted, for the duration of the scarcity event, known as load shedding. The operational goal is to maintain grid cohesion by holding sufficient operating reserves.<br />
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lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Weniger als eine Minute";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Spanish<br />
case 'es':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Menos de un minuto";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is French<br />
case 'fr':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Moins d'une minute";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Hungarian<br />
case 'hu':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Kevesebb mint egy perc";<br />
minShortForm = 'perc';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Icelandic<br />
case 'is':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Minna en eina mínútu";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Italian<br />
case 'it':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Meno di un minuto";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Dutch<br />
case 'nl':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Minder dan een minuut";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Norwegian<br />
case 'no':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mindre enn ett minutt";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Polish<br />
case 'pl':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mniej niż minutę";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Russian<br />
case 'ru':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Меньше минуты";<br />
minShortForm = 'мин';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Slovak<br />
case 'sk':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Menej než minútu";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Swedish<br />
case 'sv':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mindre än en minut";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Turkish<br />
case 'tr':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Bir dakikadan az";<br />
minShortForm = 'dk';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Ukrainian<br />
case 'uk':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Менше хвилини";<br />
minShortForm = 'хв';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Greek<br />
case 'el':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || 'Λιγότερο από λεπτό';<br />
minShortForm = 'λεπτά';<br />
break;<br />
// default s.lang in english<br />
default:<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || 'Less than a minute';<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
}<br />
<br />
// for each element<br />
el.each(function(index) {<br />
<br />
// if s.remotePath and s.remoteTarget aren't null<br />
if(s.remotePath != null && s.remoteTarget != null) {<br />
<br />
// get contents of remote file<br />
$.get(s.remotePath, function(data) {<br />
let wrapper = document.createElement('div');<br />
<br />
wrapper.innerHTML = data;<br />
<br />
// set time using the remote target found in the remote file<br />
setTime({<br />
text: $(wrapper).find(s.remoteTarget).text()<br />
});<br />
});<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// set time using the targeted element<br />
setTime({<br />
text: el.text()<br />
});<br />
}<br />
});<br />
<br />
return true;<br />
}<br />
})(jQuery);<br />
<br />
$(function() {<br />
<br />
$('body').readingTime({<br />
readingTimeAsNumber: true,<br />
readingTimeTarget: $('.reading-time'),<br />
wordsPerMinute: 285,<br />
round: false,<br />
lang: 'en',<br />
success: function(data) {<br />
console.log(data);<br />
},<br />
error: function(data) {<br />
console.log(data.error);<br />
$('.reading-time').remove();<br />
}<br />
});<br />
});<br />
*/</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&diff=1612MediaWiki:Common.js2023-07-03T12:48:28Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>/* Any JavaScript here will be loaded for all users on every page load. */<br />
<br />
$(document).ready(function(){<br />
var pageBase = document.getElementById('content');<br />
pageBase.innerHTML = pageBase.innerHTML + "\n" + "<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) --> <script async src=\"https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-5V1LKDM2DY\"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-5V1LKDM2DY'); </script>";<br />
});<br />
<br />
/*!<br />
Name: Reading Time<br />
Dependencies: jQuery<br />
Author: Michael Lynch<br />
Author URL: http://michaelynch.com<br />
Date Created: August 14, 2013<br />
Date Updated: April 30, 2018<br />
Licensed under the MIT license<br />
*/<br />
<br />
$(function($) {<br />
<br />
$.fn.readingTime = function(options) {<br />
<br />
// define default parameters<br />
const defaults = {<br />
readingTimeTarget: '.eta',<br />
readingTimeAsNumber: false,<br />
wordCountTarget: null,<br />
wordsPerMinute: 270,<br />
round: true,<br />
lang: 'en',<br />
lessThanAMinuteString: '',<br />
prependTimeString: '',<br />
prependWordString: '',<br />
remotePath: null,<br />
remoteTarget: null,<br />
success: function() {},<br />
error: function() {}<br />
};<br />
<br />
const plugin = this;<br />
const el = $(this);<br />
<br />
let wordsPerSecond;<br />
let lessThanAMinute;<br />
let minShortForm;<br />
<br />
let totalWords;<br />
let totalReadingTimeSeconds;<br />
<br />
let readingTimeMinutes;<br />
let readingTimeSeconds;<br />
let readingTime;<br />
let readingTimeObj;<br />
<br />
// merge defaults and options<br />
plugin.settings = $.extend({}, defaults, options);<br />
<br />
// define vars<br />
const s = plugin.settings;<br />
<br />
const setTime = function(o) {<br />
<br />
if(o.text !== '') {<br />
if (s.lang == "zh") {<br />
let text = o.text.trim();<br />
// step 1: count the number of Chinese characters<br />
const charArray = text.match(/[\u4e00-\u9fa5]/g);<br />
let charCount = 0;<br />
if (charArray != null) {<br />
charCount = charArray.length;<br />
}<br />
// step 2: replace all the Chinese characters with blank<br />
text = text.replace(/[\u4e00-\u9fa5]/g, " ");<br />
// step 3:replace newlines with blank<br />
text = text.replace(/[\r\n]/g, " ");<br />
// step 4:replace special characters with blank<br />
text = text.replace(/\W+/g, " ");<br />
// step 5: count the number of total English words<br />
const totalEnWords = text.trim().split(/\s+/g).length;<br />
totalWords = totalEnWords + charCount;<br />
} else {<br />
//split text by spaces to define total words<br />
totalWords = o.text.trim().split(/\s+/g).length;<br />
}<br />
<br />
//define words per second based on words per minute (s.wordsPerMinute)<br />
wordsPerSecond = s.wordsPerMinute / 60;<br />
<br />
//define total reading time in seconds<br />
totalReadingTimeSeconds = totalWords / wordsPerSecond;<br />
<br />
// define reading time<br />
readingTimeMinutes = Math.floor(totalReadingTimeSeconds / 60);<br />
<br />
// define remaining reading time seconds<br />
readingTimeSeconds = Math.round(totalReadingTimeSeconds - (readingTimeMinutes * 60));<br />
<br />
// format reading time<br />
readingTime = `${readingTimeMinutes}:${readingTimeSeconds}`;<br />
// if s.round<br />
if(s.round) {<br />
<br />
// if minutes are greater than 0<br />
if(readingTimeMinutes > 0) {<br />
<br />
// set reading time by the minute<br />
$(s.readingTimeTarget).text(s.prependTimeString + readingTimeMinutes + ((!s.readingTimeAsNumber) ? ' ' + minShortForm : ''));<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// set reading time as less than a minute<br />
$(s.readingTimeTarget).text((!s.readingTimeAsNumber) ? s.prependTimeString + lessThanAMinute : readingTimeMinutes);<br />
}<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// set reading time in minutes and seconds<br />
$(s.readingTimeTarget).text(s.prependTimeString + readingTime);<br />
}<br />
<br />
// if word count container isn't blank or undefined<br />
if(s.wordCountTarget !== '' && s.wordCountTarget !== undefined) {<br />
<br />
// set word count<br />
$(s.wordCountTarget).text(s.prependWordString + totalWords);<br />
}<br />
<br />
readingTimeObj = {<br />
wpm: s.wordsPerMinute,<br />
words: totalWords,<br />
eta: {<br />
time: readingTime,<br />
minutes: readingTimeMinutes,<br />
seconds: totalReadingTimeSeconds<br />
}<br />
};<br />
<br />
// run success callback<br />
s.success.call(this, readingTimeObj);<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// run error callback<br />
s.error.call(this, {<br />
error: 'The element does not contain any text'<br />
});<br />
}<br />
};<br />
<br />
// if no element was bound<br />
if(!this.length) {<br />
<br />
// run error callback<br />
s.error.call(this, {<br />
error: 'The element could not be found'<br />
});<br />
<br />
// return so chained events can continue<br />
return this;<br />
}<br />
<br />
// Use switch instead of ifs<br />
switch (s.lang) {<br />
// if s.lang is Arabic<br />
case 'ar':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "أقل من دقيقة";<br />
minShortForm = 'دقيقة';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Czech<br />
case 'cz':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Méně než minutu";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Danish<br />
case 'da':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mindre end et minut";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is German<br />
case 'de':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Weniger als eine Minute";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Spanish<br />
case 'es':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Menos de un minuto";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is French<br />
case 'fr':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Moins d'une minute";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Hungarian<br />
case 'hu':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Kevesebb mint egy perc";<br />
minShortForm = 'perc';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Icelandic<br />
case 'is':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Minna en eina mínútu";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Italian<br />
case 'it':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Meno di un minuto";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Dutch<br />
case 'nl':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Minder dan een minuut";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Norwegian<br />
case 'no':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mindre enn ett minutt";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Polish<br />
case 'pl':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mniej niż minutę";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Russian<br />
case 'ru':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Меньше минуты";<br />
minShortForm = 'мин';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Slovak<br />
case 'sk':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Menej než minútu";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Swedish<br />
case 'sv':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mindre än en minut";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Turkish<br />
case 'tr':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Bir dakikadan az";<br />
minShortForm = 'dk';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Ukrainian<br />
case 'uk':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Менше хвилини";<br />
minShortForm = 'хв';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Greek<br />
case 'el':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || 'Λιγότερο από λεπτό';<br />
minShortForm = 'λεπτά';<br />
break;<br />
// default s.lang in english<br />
default:<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || 'Less than a minute';<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
}<br />
<br />
// for each element<br />
el.each(function(index) {<br />
<br />
// if s.remotePath and s.remoteTarget aren't null<br />
if(s.remotePath != null && s.remoteTarget != null) {<br />
<br />
// get contents of remote file<br />
$.get(s.remotePath, function(data) {<br />
let wrapper = document.createElement('div');<br />
<br />
wrapper.innerHTML = data;<br />
<br />
// set time using the remote target found in the remote file<br />
setTime({<br />
text: $(wrapper).find(s.remoteTarget).text()<br />
});<br />
});<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// set time using the targeted element<br />
setTime({<br />
text: el.text()<br />
});<br />
}<br />
});<br />
<br />
return true;<br />
}<br />
})(jQuery);<br />
<br />
$(function() {<br />
<br />
$('body').readingTime({<br />
readingTimeAsNumber: true,<br />
readingTimeTarget: $('.reading-time'),<br />
wordsPerMinute: 285,<br />
round: false,<br />
lang: 'en',<br />
success: function(data) {<br />
console.log(data);<br />
},<br />
error: function(data) {<br />
console.log(data.error);<br />
$('.reading-time').remove();<br />
}<br />
});<br />
});</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&diff=1611MediaWiki:Common.js2023-07-03T12:46:59Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
<hr />
<div>/* Any JavaScript here will be loaded for all users on every page load. */<br />
<br />
/*!<br />
Name: Reading Time<br />
Dependencies: jQuery<br />
Author: Michael Lynch<br />
Author URL: http://michaelynch.com<br />
Date Created: August 14, 2013<br />
Date Updated: April 30, 2018<br />
Licensed under the MIT license<br />
*/<br />
<br />
$(function($) {<br />
<br />
$.fn.readingTime = function(options) {<br />
<br />
// define default parameters<br />
const defaults = {<br />
readingTimeTarget: '.eta',<br />
readingTimeAsNumber: false,<br />
wordCountTarget: null,<br />
wordsPerMinute: 270,<br />
round: true,<br />
lang: 'en',<br />
lessThanAMinuteString: '',<br />
prependTimeString: '',<br />
prependWordString: '',<br />
remotePath: null,<br />
remoteTarget: null,<br />
success: function() {},<br />
error: function() {}<br />
};<br />
<br />
const plugin = this;<br />
const el = $(this);<br />
<br />
let wordsPerSecond;<br />
let lessThanAMinute;<br />
let minShortForm;<br />
<br />
let totalWords;<br />
let totalReadingTimeSeconds;<br />
<br />
let readingTimeMinutes;<br />
let readingTimeSeconds;<br />
let readingTime;<br />
let readingTimeObj;<br />
<br />
// merge defaults and options<br />
plugin.settings = $.extend({}, defaults, options);<br />
<br />
// define vars<br />
const s = plugin.settings;<br />
<br />
const setTime = function(o) {<br />
<br />
if(o.text !== '') {<br />
if (s.lang == "zh") {<br />
let text = o.text.trim();<br />
// step 1: count the number of Chinese characters<br />
const charArray = text.match(/[\u4e00-\u9fa5]/g);<br />
let charCount = 0;<br />
if (charArray != null) {<br />
charCount = charArray.length;<br />
}<br />
// step 2: replace all the Chinese characters with blank<br />
text = text.replace(/[\u4e00-\u9fa5]/g, " ");<br />
// step 3:replace newlines with blank<br />
text = text.replace(/[\r\n]/g, " ");<br />
// step 4:replace special characters with blank<br />
text = text.replace(/\W+/g, " ");<br />
// step 5: count the number of total English words<br />
const totalEnWords = text.trim().split(/\s+/g).length;<br />
totalWords = totalEnWords + charCount;<br />
} else {<br />
//split text by spaces to define total words<br />
totalWords = o.text.trim().split(/\s+/g).length;<br />
}<br />
<br />
//define words per second based on words per minute (s.wordsPerMinute)<br />
wordsPerSecond = s.wordsPerMinute / 60;<br />
<br />
//define total reading time in seconds<br />
totalReadingTimeSeconds = totalWords / wordsPerSecond;<br />
<br />
// define reading time<br />
readingTimeMinutes = Math.floor(totalReadingTimeSeconds / 60);<br />
<br />
// define remaining reading time seconds<br />
readingTimeSeconds = Math.round(totalReadingTimeSeconds - (readingTimeMinutes * 60));<br />
<br />
// format reading time<br />
readingTime = `${readingTimeMinutes}:${readingTimeSeconds}`;<br />
// if s.round<br />
if(s.round) {<br />
<br />
// if minutes are greater than 0<br />
if(readingTimeMinutes > 0) {<br />
<br />
// set reading time by the minute<br />
$(s.readingTimeTarget).text(s.prependTimeString + readingTimeMinutes + ((!s.readingTimeAsNumber) ? ' ' + minShortForm : ''));<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// set reading time as less than a minute<br />
$(s.readingTimeTarget).text((!s.readingTimeAsNumber) ? s.prependTimeString + lessThanAMinute : readingTimeMinutes);<br />
}<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// set reading time in minutes and seconds<br />
$(s.readingTimeTarget).text(s.prependTimeString + readingTime);<br />
}<br />
<br />
// if word count container isn't blank or undefined<br />
if(s.wordCountTarget !== '' && s.wordCountTarget !== undefined) {<br />
<br />
// set word count<br />
$(s.wordCountTarget).text(s.prependWordString + totalWords);<br />
}<br />
<br />
readingTimeObj = {<br />
wpm: s.wordsPerMinute,<br />
words: totalWords,<br />
eta: {<br />
time: readingTime,<br />
minutes: readingTimeMinutes,<br />
seconds: totalReadingTimeSeconds<br />
}<br />
};<br />
<br />
// run success callback<br />
s.success.call(this, readingTimeObj);<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// run error callback<br />
s.error.call(this, {<br />
error: 'The element does not contain any text'<br />
});<br />
}<br />
};<br />
<br />
// if no element was bound<br />
if(!this.length) {<br />
<br />
// run error callback<br />
s.error.call(this, {<br />
error: 'The element could not be found'<br />
});<br />
<br />
// return so chained events can continue<br />
return this;<br />
}<br />
<br />
// Use switch instead of ifs<br />
switch (s.lang) {<br />
// if s.lang is Arabic<br />
case 'ar':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "أقل من دقيقة";<br />
minShortForm = 'دقيقة';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Czech<br />
case 'cz':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Méně než minutu";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Danish<br />
case 'da':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mindre end et minut";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is German<br />
case 'de':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Weniger als eine Minute";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Spanish<br />
case 'es':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Menos de un minuto";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is French<br />
case 'fr':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Moins d'une minute";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Hungarian<br />
case 'hu':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Kevesebb mint egy perc";<br />
minShortForm = 'perc';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Icelandic<br />
case 'is':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Minna en eina mínútu";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Italian<br />
case 'it':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Meno di un minuto";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Dutch<br />
case 'nl':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Minder dan een minuut";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Norwegian<br />
case 'no':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mindre enn ett minutt";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Polish<br />
case 'pl':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mniej niż minutę";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Russian<br />
case 'ru':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Меньше минуты";<br />
minShortForm = 'мин';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Slovak<br />
case 'sk':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Menej než minútu";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Swedish<br />
case 'sv':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mindre än en minut";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Turkish<br />
case 'tr':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Bir dakikadan az";<br />
minShortForm = 'dk';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Ukrainian<br />
case 'uk':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Менше хвилини";<br />
minShortForm = 'хв';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Greek<br />
case 'el':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || 'Λιγότερο από λεπτό';<br />
minShortForm = 'λεπτά';<br />
break;<br />
// default s.lang in english<br />
default:<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || 'Less than a minute';<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
}<br />
<br />
// for each element<br />
el.each(function(index) {<br />
<br />
// if s.remotePath and s.remoteTarget aren't null<br />
if(s.remotePath != null && s.remoteTarget != null) {<br />
<br />
// get contents of remote file<br />
$.get(s.remotePath, function(data) {<br />
let wrapper = document.createElement('div');<br />
<br />
wrapper.innerHTML = data;<br />
<br />
// set time using the remote target found in the remote file<br />
setTime({<br />
text: $(wrapper).find(s.remoteTarget).text()<br />
});<br />
});<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// set time using the targeted element<br />
setTime({<br />
text: el.text()<br />
});<br />
}<br />
});<br />
<br />
return true;<br />
}<br />
})(jQuery);<br />
<br />
$(function() {<br />
<br />
$('body').readingTime({<br />
readingTimeAsNumber: true,<br />
readingTimeTarget: $('.reading-time'),<br />
wordsPerMinute: 285,<br />
round: false,<br />
lang: 'en',<br />
success: function(data) {<br />
console.log(data);<br />
},<br />
error: function(data) {<br />
console.log(data.error);<br />
$('.reading-time').remove();<br />
}<br />
});<br />
});<br />
<br />
$(document).ready(function(){<br />
var pageBase = document.getElementById('content');<br />
pageBase.innerHTML = pageBase.innerHTML + "\n" + "<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) --> <script async src=\"https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-5V1LKDM2DY\"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-5V1LKDM2DY'); </script>";<br />
});</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&diff=1610MediaWiki:Common.js2023-07-03T12:44:56Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>/* Any JavaScript here will be loaded for all users on every page load. */<br />
<br />
/*!<br />
Name: Reading Time<br />
Dependencies: jQuery<br />
Author: Michael Lynch<br />
Author URL: http://michaelynch.com<br />
Date Created: August 14, 2013<br />
Date Updated: April 30, 2018<br />
Licensed under the MIT license<br />
*/<br />
<br />
$(function($) {<br />
<br />
$.fn.readingTime = function(options) {<br />
<br />
// define default parameters<br />
const defaults = {<br />
readingTimeTarget: '.eta',<br />
readingTimeAsNumber: false,<br />
wordCountTarget: null,<br />
wordsPerMinute: 270,<br />
round: true,<br />
lang: 'en',<br />
lessThanAMinuteString: '',<br />
prependTimeString: '',<br />
prependWordString: '',<br />
remotePath: null,<br />
remoteTarget: null,<br />
success: function() {},<br />
error: function() {}<br />
};<br />
<br />
const plugin = this;<br />
const el = $(this);<br />
<br />
let wordsPerSecond;<br />
let lessThanAMinute;<br />
let minShortForm;<br />
<br />
let totalWords;<br />
let totalReadingTimeSeconds;<br />
<br />
let readingTimeMinutes;<br />
let readingTimeSeconds;<br />
let readingTime;<br />
let readingTimeObj;<br />
<br />
// merge defaults and options<br />
plugin.settings = $.extend({}, defaults, options);<br />
<br />
// define vars<br />
const s = plugin.settings;<br />
<br />
const setTime = function(o) {<br />
<br />
if(o.text !== '') {<br />
if (s.lang == "zh") {<br />
let text = o.text.trim();<br />
// step 1: count the number of Chinese characters<br />
const charArray = text.match(/[\u4e00-\u9fa5]/g);<br />
let charCount = 0;<br />
if (charArray != null) {<br />
charCount = charArray.length;<br />
}<br />
// step 2: replace all the Chinese characters with blank<br />
text = text.replace(/[\u4e00-\u9fa5]/g, " ");<br />
// step 3:replace newlines with blank<br />
text = text.replace(/[\r\n]/g, " ");<br />
// step 4:replace special characters with blank<br />
text = text.replace(/\W+/g, " ");<br />
// step 5: count the number of total English words<br />
const totalEnWords = text.trim().split(/\s+/g).length;<br />
totalWords = totalEnWords + charCount;<br />
} else {<br />
//split text by spaces to define total words<br />
totalWords = o.text.trim().split(/\s+/g).length;<br />
}<br />
<br />
//define words per second based on words per minute (s.wordsPerMinute)<br />
wordsPerSecond = s.wordsPerMinute / 60;<br />
<br />
//define total reading time in seconds<br />
totalReadingTimeSeconds = totalWords / wordsPerSecond;<br />
<br />
// define reading time<br />
readingTimeMinutes = Math.floor(totalReadingTimeSeconds / 60);<br />
<br />
// define remaining reading time seconds<br />
readingTimeSeconds = Math.round(totalReadingTimeSeconds - (readingTimeMinutes * 60));<br />
<br />
// format reading time<br />
readingTime = `${readingTimeMinutes}:${readingTimeSeconds}`;<br />
// if s.round<br />
if(s.round) {<br />
<br />
// if minutes are greater than 0<br />
if(readingTimeMinutes > 0) {<br />
<br />
// set reading time by the minute<br />
$(s.readingTimeTarget).text(s.prependTimeString + readingTimeMinutes + ((!s.readingTimeAsNumber) ? ' ' + minShortForm : ''));<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// set reading time as less than a minute<br />
$(s.readingTimeTarget).text((!s.readingTimeAsNumber) ? s.prependTimeString + lessThanAMinute : readingTimeMinutes);<br />
}<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// set reading time in minutes and seconds<br />
$(s.readingTimeTarget).text(s.prependTimeString + readingTime);<br />
}<br />
<br />
// if word count container isn't blank or undefined<br />
if(s.wordCountTarget !== '' && s.wordCountTarget !== undefined) {<br />
<br />
// set word count<br />
$(s.wordCountTarget).text(s.prependWordString + totalWords);<br />
}<br />
<br />
readingTimeObj = {<br />
wpm: s.wordsPerMinute,<br />
words: totalWords,<br />
eta: {<br />
time: readingTime,<br />
minutes: readingTimeMinutes,<br />
seconds: totalReadingTimeSeconds<br />
}<br />
};<br />
<br />
// run success callback<br />
s.success.call(this, readingTimeObj);<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// run error callback<br />
s.error.call(this, {<br />
error: 'The element does not contain any text'<br />
});<br />
}<br />
};<br />
<br />
// if no element was bound<br />
if(!this.length) {<br />
<br />
// run error callback<br />
s.error.call(this, {<br />
error: 'The element could not be found'<br />
});<br />
<br />
// return so chained events can continue<br />
return this;<br />
}<br />
<br />
// Use switch instead of ifs<br />
switch (s.lang) {<br />
// if s.lang is Arabic<br />
case 'ar':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "أقل من دقيقة";<br />
minShortForm = 'دقيقة';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Czech<br />
case 'cz':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Méně než minutu";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Danish<br />
case 'da':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mindre end et minut";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is German<br />
case 'de':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Weniger als eine Minute";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Spanish<br />
case 'es':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Menos de un minuto";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is French<br />
case 'fr':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Moins d'une minute";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Hungarian<br />
case 'hu':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Kevesebb mint egy perc";<br />
minShortForm = 'perc';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Icelandic<br />
case 'is':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Minna en eina mínútu";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Italian<br />
case 'it':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Meno di un minuto";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Dutch<br />
case 'nl':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Minder dan een minuut";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Norwegian<br />
case 'no':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mindre enn ett minutt";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Polish<br />
case 'pl':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mniej niż minutę";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Russian<br />
case 'ru':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Меньше минуты";<br />
minShortForm = 'мин';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Slovak<br />
case 'sk':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Menej než minútu";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Swedish<br />
case 'sv':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Mindre än en minut";<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Turkish<br />
case 'tr':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Bir dakikadan az";<br />
minShortForm = 'dk';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Ukrainian<br />
case 'uk':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || "Менше хвилини";<br />
minShortForm = 'хв';<br />
break;<br />
// if s.lang is Greek<br />
case 'el':<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || 'Λιγότερο από λεπτό';<br />
minShortForm = 'λεπτά';<br />
break;<br />
// default s.lang in english<br />
default:<br />
lessThanAMinute = s.lessThanAMinuteString || 'Less than a minute';<br />
minShortForm = 'min';<br />
}<br />
<br />
// for each element<br />
el.each(function(index) {<br />
<br />
// if s.remotePath and s.remoteTarget aren't null<br />
if(s.remotePath != null && s.remoteTarget != null) {<br />
<br />
// get contents of remote file<br />
$.get(s.remotePath, function(data) {<br />
let wrapper = document.createElement('div');<br />
<br />
wrapper.innerHTML = data;<br />
<br />
// set time using the remote target found in the remote file<br />
setTime({<br />
text: $(wrapper).find(s.remoteTarget).text()<br />
});<br />
});<br />
<br />
} else {<br />
<br />
// set time using the targeted element<br />
setTime({<br />
text: el.text()<br />
});<br />
}<br />
});<br />
<br />
return true;<br />
}<br />
})(jQuery);<br />
<br />
$(function() {<br />
<br />
$('body').readingTime({<br />
readingTimeAsNumber: true,<br />
readingTimeTarget: $('.reading-time'),<br />
wordsPerMinute: 285,<br />
round: false,<br />
lang: 'en',<br />
success: function(data) {<br />
console.log(data);<br />
},<br />
error: function(data) {<br />
console.log(data.error);<br />
$('.reading-time').remove();<br />
}<br />
});<br />
});<br />
<br />
$(document).ready(function(){<br />
var pageBase = document.getElementById('content');<br />
pageBase.innerHTML = pageBase.innerHTML + "\n" + "<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) --> <script async src=\"https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-5V1LKDM2DY\"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];<br />
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-5V1LKDM2DY'); </script>";<br />
});</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1609Pandemic2023-02-04T00:06:42Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: Add workstream deliverable links to bottom of each workstream section (only ws1, ws2 and ws7 affected)</p>
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<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==Project Deliverables==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 1-5-Identify best practices for workforce viral testing and health monitoring|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023065 3002023065]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-6-Identify best practices for engineering controls, such as ventilation, in control rooms, field operations, and office environments|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023066 3002023066]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-48 Eyewear Fogging Mitigation|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023067 3002023067]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-50–Update 2021 surveys, including questions on new vaccination requirements, changes in operations, and workers’ discomforts related to PPE requirements|| <br />
[[File:H75.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Mar 2023 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 1-51–Publish an article in Power and Energy Magazine on COVID-19 theme|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9920502 IEEE Article]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-52-Examine disinfection technologies|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://gridops.epri.com/Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines Guidelines]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://gridops.epri.com/Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns Designs]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || <br />
[[File:H75.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases || <br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies ||<br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || <br />
[[File:H25.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022790 3002022790]<br />
|-<br />
| 3-19-Develop demonstration video with field crews and the use of technologies for improving communications at a distance and the use of technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-20-Determine the performance of existing technologies for improving communications, doing remote inspections, and tracking personnel and equipment || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3.21.1-Additional Testing of N95 mask behind a FR shield and FR Balaclava || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-22-Evaluate lab test results of the safety performance of hand sanitizers || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-23-Develop a video interview with a distance training expert along with a video demonstration of remote training at an operations center || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-24-Investigate technologies to allow mentors to monitor and impact trainee actions while being socially distanced || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-26-Provide lessons learned on training methods using social distancing || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 5-27-Summary of demand impacts of COVID-19 || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Mar 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 6-36-Evaluate the impact of delayed maintenance and capital projects || <br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 7-39-Summarize scenario results for changes in economic growth, energy/electricity demand by sector, generation capacity mix, CO2 emissions || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-40-Capture implications for sustainability strategies || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || <br />
[[File:H25.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2023 ||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
* [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023065 1-5 Identify best practices for workforce viral testing and health monitoring]<br />
* [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023066 1-6 Identify best practices for engineering controls, such as ventilation, in control rooms, field operations, and office environments]<br />
* [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023067 1-48 Eyewear Fogging Mitigation]<br />
* [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9920502 1-51 Publish an article in Power and Energy Magazine on COVID-19 theme]<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
* [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022790 2-18 Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event]<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
<br />
* [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 7-39 Summarize scenario results for changes in economic growth, energy/electricity demand by sector, generation capacity mix, CO2 emissions]<br />
* [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 7-40 Capture implications for sustainability strategies]<br />
* [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 7-41 Executives Summary of Key Insights]<br />
<br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1608Pandemic2023-02-02T17:22:19Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: /* Project Deliverables */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==Project Deliverables==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 1-5-Identify best practices for workforce viral testing and health monitoring|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023065 3002023065]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-6-Identify best practices for engineering controls, such as ventilation, in control rooms, field operations, and office environments|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023066 3002023066]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-48 Eyewear Fogging Mitigation|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023067 3002023067]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-50–Update 2021 surveys, including questions on new vaccination requirements, changes in operations, and workers’ discomforts related to PPE requirements|| <br />
[[File:H75.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Mar 2023 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 1-51–Publish an article in Power and Energy Magazine on COVID-19 theme|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9920502 IEEE Article]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-52-Examine disinfection technologies|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://gridops.epri.com/Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines Guidelines]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://gridops.epri.com/Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns Designs]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || <br />
[[File:H75.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases || <br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies ||<br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || <br />
[[File:H25.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022790 3002022790]<br />
|-<br />
| 3-19-Develop demonstration video with field crews and the use of technologies for improving communications at a distance and the use of technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-20-Determine the performance of existing technologies for improving communications, doing remote inspections, and tracking personnel and equipment || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3.21.1-Additional Testing of N95 mask behind a FR shield and FR Balaclava || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-22-Evaluate lab test results of the safety performance of hand sanitizers || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-23-Develop a video interview with a distance training expert along with a video demonstration of remote training at an operations center || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-24-Investigate technologies to allow mentors to monitor and impact trainee actions while being socially distanced || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-26-Provide lessons learned on training methods using social distancing || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 5-27-Summary of demand impacts of COVID-19 || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Mar 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 6-36-Evaluate the impact of delayed maintenance and capital projects || <br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 7-39-Summarize scenario results for changes in economic growth, energy/electricity demand by sector, generation capacity mix, CO2 emissions || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-40-Capture implications for sustainability strategies || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || <br />
[[File:H25.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2023 ||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1607Pandemic2023-02-02T16:59:02Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: Moved table blurb to WS2, updated hyperlink placeholder name</p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==Project Deliverables==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 1-5-Identify best practices for workforce viral testing and health monitoring|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023065 3002023065]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-6-Identify best practices for engineering controls, such as ventilation, in control rooms, field operations, and office environments|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023066 3002023066]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-48 Eyewear Fogging Mitigation|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023067 3002023067]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-50–Update 2021 surveys, including questions on new vaccination requirements, changes in operations, and workers’ discomforts related to PPE requirements|| <br />
[[File:H75.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Mar 2023 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 1-51–Publish an article in Power and Energy Magazine on COVID-19 theme|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9920502 IEEE Article]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-52-Examine disinfection technologies|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://gridops.epri.com/Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines Guidelines]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://gridops.epri.com/Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns Designs]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || <br />
[[File:H75.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases || <br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies ||<br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || <br />
[[File:H25.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022790 3002022790]<br />
|-<br />
| 3-19-Develop demonstration video with field crews and the use of technologies for improving communications at a distance and the use of technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-20-Determine the performance of existing technologies for improving communications, doing remote inspections, and tracking personnel and equipment || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3.21.1-Additional Testing of N95 mask behind a FR shield and FR Balaclava || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-22-Evaluate lab test results of the safety performance of hand sanitizers || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-23-Develop a video interview with a distance training expert along with a video demonstration of remote training at an operations center || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-24-Investigate technologies to allow mentors to monitor and impact trainee actions while being socially distanced || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-26-Provide lessons learned on training methods using social distancing || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 5-27-Summary of demand impacts of COVID-19 || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Mar 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 6-36-Evaluate the impact of delayed maintenance and capital projects || <br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 7-39-Summarize scenario results for changes in economic growth, energy/electricity demand by sector, generation capacity mix, CO2 emissions || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-40-Capture implications for sustainability strategies || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || <br />
[[File:H25.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2023 ||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1606Pandemic2023-02-02T16:38:20Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: /* Project Deliverables */ remove control center image</p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==Project Deliverables==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 1-5-Identify best practices for workforce viral testing and health monitoring|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023065 3002023065]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-6-Identify best practices for engineering controls, such as ventilation, in control rooms, field operations, and office environments|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023066 3002023066]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-48 Eyewear Fogging Mitigation|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023067 3002023067]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-50–Update 2021 surveys, including questions on new vaccination requirements, changes in operations, and workers’ discomforts related to PPE requirements|| <br />
[[File:H75.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Mar 2023 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 1-51–Publish an article in Power and Energy Magazine on COVID-19 theme|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9920502 9920502]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-52-Examine disinfection technologies|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://gridops.epri.com/Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines Guidelines]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://gridops.epri.com/Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns Designs]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || <br />
[[File:H75.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases || <br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies ||<br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || <br />
[[File:H25.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022790 3002022790]<br />
|-<br />
| 3-19-Develop demonstration video with field crews and the use of technologies for improving communications at a distance and the use of technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-20-Determine the performance of existing technologies for improving communications, doing remote inspections, and tracking personnel and equipment || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3.21.1-Additional Testing of N95 mask behind a FR shield and FR Balaclava || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-22-Evaluate lab test results of the safety performance of hand sanitizers || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-23-Develop a video interview with a distance training expert along with a video demonstration of remote training at an operations center || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-24-Investigate technologies to allow mentors to monitor and impact trainee actions while being socially distanced || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-26-Provide lessons learned on training methods using social distancing || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 5-27-Summary of demand impacts of COVID-19 || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Mar 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 6-36-Evaluate the impact of delayed maintenance and capital projects || <br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 7-39-Summarize scenario results for changes in economic growth, energy/electricity demand by sector, generation capacity mix, CO2 emissions || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-40-Capture implications for sustainability strategies || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || <br />
[[File:H25.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2023 ||<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1605Pandemic2023-02-02T16:20:41Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: Moved deliverables to be first header, move control center image to right of table, update links on 2-11 and 2-12</p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==Project Deliverables==<br />
[[File:Pandemic CC.png|right]]<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 1-5-Identify best practices for workforce viral testing and health monitoring|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023065 3002023065]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-6-Identify best practices for engineering controls, such as ventilation, in control rooms, field operations, and office environments|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023066 3002023066]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-48 Eyewear Fogging Mitigation|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023067 3002023067]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-50–Update 2021 surveys, including questions on new vaccination requirements, changes in operations, and workers’ discomforts related to PPE requirements|| <br />
[[File:H75.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Mar 2023 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 1-51–Publish an article in Power and Energy Magazine on COVID-19 theme|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9920502 9920502]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-52-Examine disinfection technologies|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://gridops.epri.com/Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines Guidelines]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://gridops.epri.com/Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns Designs]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || <br />
[[File:H75.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases || <br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies ||<br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || <br />
[[File:H25.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022790 3002022790]<br />
|-<br />
| 3-19-Develop demonstration video with field crews and the use of technologies for improving communications at a distance and the use of technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-20-Determine the performance of existing technologies for improving communications, doing remote inspections, and tracking personnel and equipment || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3.21.1-Additional Testing of N95 mask behind a FR shield and FR Balaclava || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-22-Evaluate lab test results of the safety performance of hand sanitizers || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-23-Develop a video interview with a distance training expert along with a video demonstration of remote training at an operations center || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-24-Investigate technologies to allow mentors to monitor and impact trainee actions while being socially distanced || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-26-Provide lessons learned on training methods using social distancing || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 5-27-Summary of demand impacts of COVID-19 || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Mar 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 6-36-Evaluate the impact of delayed maintenance and capital projects || <br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 7-39-Summarize scenario results for changes in economic growth, energy/electricity demand by sector, generation capacity mix, CO2 emissions || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-40-Capture implications for sustainability strategies || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || <br />
[[File:H25.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2023 ||<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1604Pandemic2023-02-02T06:19:08Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
[[File:Pandemic CC.png|left]]<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 1-5-Identify best practices for workforce viral testing and health monitoring|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023065 3002023065]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-6-Identify best practices for engineering controls, such as ventilation, in control rooms, field operations, and office environments|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023066 3002023066]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-48 Eyewear Fogging Mitigation|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023067 3002023067]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-50–Update 2021 surveys, including questions on new vaccination requirements, changes in operations, and workers’ discomforts related to PPE requirements|| <br />
[[File:H75.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Mar 2023 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 1-51–Publish an article in Power and Energy Magazine on COVID-19 theme|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9920502 9920502]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-52-Examine disinfection technologies|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022413 3002022413]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022414 3002022414]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || <br />
[[File:H75.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases || <br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies ||<br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || <br />
[[File:H25.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022790 3002022790]<br />
|-<br />
| 3-19-Develop demonstration video with field crews and the use of technologies for improving communications at a distance and the use of technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-20-Determine the performance of existing technologies for improving communications, doing remote inspections, and tracking personnel and equipment || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3.21.1-Additional Testing of N95 mask behind a FR shield and FR Balaclava || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-22-Evaluate lab test results of the safety performance of hand sanitizers || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-23-Develop a video interview with a distance training expert along with a video demonstration of remote training at an operations center || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-24-Investigate technologies to allow mentors to monitor and impact trainee actions while being socially distanced || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-26-Provide lessons learned on training methods using social distancing || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 5-27-Summary of demand impacts of COVID-19 || [[File:H50.png|40px|center]] || Mar 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 6-36-Evaluate the impact of delayed maintenance and capital projects || <br />
[[File:H50.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 7-39-Summarize scenario results for changes in economic growth, energy/electricity demand by sector, generation capacity mix, CO2 emissions || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-40-Capture implications for sustainability strategies || [[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || <br />
[[File:H100.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || <br />
[[File:H25.jpg|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2023 ||<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:H50.png&diff=1603File:H50.png2023-02-02T06:16:50Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>Harvey half full</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:H75.jpg&diff=1602File:H75.jpg2023-02-02T06:16:04Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>Harvey three quarters</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:H25.jpg&diff=1601File:H25.jpg2023-02-02T06:15:19Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>harvey quarter</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:H100.jpg&diff=1600File:H100.jpg2023-02-02T06:13:42Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>full harvey</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:Harv75.jpg&diff=1599File:Harv75.jpg2023-02-02T06:00:07Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>Harvey Ball Three Quarters Full</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:Harv50.png&diff=1598File:Harv50.png2023-02-02T05:58:40Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>Harvey Ball half full</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:Harv100.jpg&diff=1597File:Harv100.jpg2023-02-02T05:56:19Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>Full Harvey Ball</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:Harv25.jpg&diff=1596File:Harv25.jpg2023-02-02T05:51:56Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>Harvey Ball Quarter Full</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:Harv0.jpg&diff=1595File:Harv0.jpg2023-02-02T05:50:47Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>Empty Harvey Ball</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1594Pandemic2023-01-31T16:13:35Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
[[File:Pandemic CC.png|left]]<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 1-5-Identify best practices for workforce viral testing and health monitoring|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023065 3002023065]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-6-Identify best practices for engineering controls, such as ventilation, in control rooms, field operations, and office environments|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023066 3002023066]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-48 Eyewear Fogging Mitigation|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002023067 3002023067]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-50–Update 2021 surveys, including questions on new vaccination requirements, changes in operations, and workers’ discomforts related to PPE requirements|| <br />
[[File:75Harvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Mar 2023 ||<br />
|-<br />
| 1-51–Publish an article in Power and Energy Magazine on COVID-19 theme|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9920502 9920502]<br />
|-<br />
| 1-52-Examine disinfection technologies|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| ||<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022413 3002022413]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022414 3002022414]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || <br />
[[File:75Harvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases || <br />
[[File:Half Harvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies ||<br />
[[File:Half Harvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || [[File:QuarterHarvey.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || [[File:Half Harvey.png|40px|center]] || Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022790 3002022790]<br />
|-<br />
| 3-19-Develop demonstration video with field crews and the use of technologies for improving communications at a distance and the use of technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-20-Determine the performance of existing technologies for improving communications, doing remote inspections, and tracking personnel and equipment || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 3.21.1-Additional Testing of N95 mask behind a FR shield and FR Balaclava || [[File:Half Harvey.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 3-22-Evaluate lab test results of the safety performance of hand sanitizers || [[File:Half Harvey.png|40px|center]] || Jun 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-23-Develop a video interview with a distance training expert along with a video demonstration of remote training at an operations center || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-24-Investigate technologies to allow mentors to monitor and impact trainee actions while being socially distanced || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 4-26-Provide lessons learned on training methods using social distancing || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || <br />
|-<br />
| 5-27-Summary of demand impacts of COVID-19 || [[File:Half Harvey.png|40px|center]] || Mar 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 6-36-Evaluate the impact of delayed maintenance and capital projects || [[File:Half Harvey.png|40px|center]] || Sep 2023 || <br />
|-<br />
| 7-39-Summarize scenario results for changes in economic growth, energy/electricity demand by sector, generation capacity mix, CO2 emissions || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-40-Capture implications for sustainability strategies || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002025518 3002025518]<br />
|-<br />
| 7-41-Executives Summary of Key Insights || [[File:QuarterHarvey.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2023 ||<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1593Pandemic2022-08-15T15:20:08Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: /* WS2 Project Deliverables */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
[[File:Pandemic CC.png|left]]<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022413 3002022413]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022414 3002022414]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || <br />
[[File:Half Harvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases. || <br />
[[File:QuarterHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies ||<br />
[[File:75Harvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || [[File:QuarterHarvey.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || [[File:QuarterHarvey.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event. || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022790 3002022790]<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:Pandemic_CC.png&diff=1592File:Pandemic CC.png2022-08-15T15:19:56Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>cc</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1591Pandemic2022-08-15T15:18:35Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: /* WS2 Project Deliverables */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022413 3002022413]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022414 3002022414]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || <br />
[[File:Half Harvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases. || <br />
[[File:QuarterHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies ||<br />
[[File:75Harvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || [[File:QuarterHarvey.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || [[File:QuarterHarvey.png|40px|center]] || Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event. || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022790 3002022790]<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:75Harvey.png&diff=1590File:75Harvey.png2022-08-15T15:18:02Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>75</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1589Pandemic2022-08-15T15:15:43Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: /* WS2 Project Deliverables */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022413 3002022413]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022414 3002022414]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || <br />
[[File:Half Harvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases. || <br />
[[File:QuarterHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Dec 2022 || <br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:QuarterHarvey.png&diff=1588File:QuarterHarvey.png2022-08-15T15:15:28Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>25</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:Half_Harvey.png&diff=1587File:Half Harvey.png2022-08-15T15:14:44Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>fff</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1586Pandemic2022-08-15T15:13:22Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: /* WS2 Project Deliverables */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022413 3002022413]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || [[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]] || || [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002022414 3002022414]<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1585Pandemic2022-08-15T15:11:38Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|40px|center]]<br />
|| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1584Pandemic2022-08-15T15:11:11Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|75px]]<br />
|| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1583Pandemic2022-08-15T15:10:25Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|100px|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png]]<br />
|| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1582Pandemic2022-08-15T15:08:59Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|frame|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, and mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png]]<br />
|| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:FullHarvey.png&diff=1581File:FullHarvey.png2022-08-15T15:08:05Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
<hr />
<div>dd</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1580Pandemic2022-08-15T15:07:25Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: /* WS2 Project Deliverables */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|frame|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response|| <br />
[[File:FullHarvey.png|thumb]]<br />
|| Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1579Pandemic2022-08-15T15:03:05Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: /* WS2 Project Deliverables */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|frame|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| 2-11-Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response|| Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-12-Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-13-Identify and document key new automation algorithms and tools for system monitoring and control to streamline control center operations || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-14-Evaluate and document results, risks to consider and recommended security and telecommunication architectures for the remote access use cases. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-15-Produce an evaluation framework to help utilities self-assess associated risks of their own specific situation related to remote access and use of cloud services including supporting information, communication and cyber security dependencies || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-16-Identify functional requirements for virtual command and control centers || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-17-Produce documentation of refined restoration plans and lessons learned from tabletop exercises || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| 2-18-Evaluate recommendations and strategies for Distribution Control Centers and Field Forces during a pandemic combined with a major restoration event. || Example || Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1578Pandemic2022-08-15T15:01:34Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|frame|center|]]<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Task !! Percent Complete !! Scheduled Due Date !! Product ID<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example || Example || Example<br />
|-<br />
| Example || Example || Example || Example<br />
|}<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1577Pandemic2022-08-15T14:59:32Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
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This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|frame|center|]]<br />
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The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
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EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
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==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
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===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
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==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1576Pandemic2022-08-15T14:57:36Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|frame|center|]]<br />
<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
* WS1: Health and Disinfection<br />
* WS2: Control Center Strategies<br />
* WS3: Field Crew Strategies<br />
* WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training<br />
* WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts<br />
* WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy<br />
* WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability<br />
* WS8: Asset Management Strartegies<br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary3.png|frame|center|]]<br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
Ensuring safe and healthy work environments is of paramount importance. A number of existing and emerging technologies are available for both surface and air disinfection; these include ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), other light-based technologies, photocatalytic oxidation, plasma-based technologies, and electrostatic sprays of disinfectant materials. Information on key aspects of these approaches, including anti-pathogen efficacy and materials impacts, is variable in availability and robustness. Additionally, appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for safe operations. Electric utility workers may have specific requirements for PPE, e.g., FR-rated masks, for which there is an inadequate knowledge base regarding effectiveness for prevention of pathogen exposure. Other approaches for reducing exposure include engineering controls such as modifications to ventilation systems. Finally, workforce testing and monitoring approaches need to be considered in overall pandemic preparedness and response.<br />
This task includes all health and safety-related activities for control center and field applications as well as disinfection approaches and biological testing of PPE. Additionally, this task will explore the impacts and opportunities associated with teleworking.<br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
Transmission and Distribution Control Center physical building designs, backup facilities, technologies, processes and procedures were tested to the limit during the COVID-19 pandemic. While in most instances, the control center staff adapted and the facilities were resilient, many issues, inefficiencies and limitations were discovered throughout the pandemic event. Existing business continuity plans and control center characteristics have been optimized over decades for a range of normal and emergency operating conditions, however, the requirements for operating during a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 were not fully understood and thus not fully considered. <br />
This task focuses on evaluating the issues and gaps that manifested themselves during the pandemic. It will involve developing new designs, requirements, processes, technologies and practices, so that pandemic operations can be added as an operating scenario that control centers are comfortable with, without loss of resilience or impacts to the grid. <br />
<br />
<br />
===WS2 Project Deliverables===<br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies==<br />
Field work involves crews working collaboratively, sometimes in close proximity. The goal of this task is to identify technologies and practices that can help field crews maintain good communications while using social distancing. Safety for workers from COVID-19 and from traditional hazards like arc flash must be considered. Specific tasks addressed are subdivided into two main topical areas, and include:<br />
Technology<br />
A focus of this task is technology to help workers perform tasks while maintaining social distancing. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Evaluate technologies to improve communications at a distance including headsets and FaceTime-like interfaces.<br />
• Assess technologies to track personnel and equipment to ensure separation.<br />
• Investigate alternative approaches, tools, and technologies that reduce people needing to be in close proximity such as a robotic splice assistant or an automated safety watcher.<br />
• Evaluate the feasibility of UAS technologies for remote inspections, including vaults.<br />
• Evaluate the safety of hand sanitizers for field operations.<br />
Priorities for each of these are to identify technologies that are readily available and can be applied now.<br />
Work Practices<br />
Work practice changes are also an important consideration in this task. Specific tasks include:<br />
• Identify efficiencies realized from remote staging of crews and staggered shifts.<br />
• Assess the impact of staggering field crews to the workload of operators.<br />
• Identify common tasks that normally require close interaction or a central location. <br />
For each of these, options to reduce close interaction will be identified.<br />
<br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training==<br />
Utility training for operators and field personnel is traditionally done in close proximity. In addition to traditional classroom instruction, skills are perfected through On the Job Training (OJT). Tasks performed during OJT have inherent risks that must be controlled by the mentor / instructor who is in close proximity to the student. The goal of this task is to identify ways to perform equivalent training while social distancing. It is important to maintain the features of effective training practices, including ways to provide training that is hands on and has immediate feedback. <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts==<br />
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, EPRI has monitored and documented changes in load patterns at the transmission and distribution levels across the globe. This task will continue and expand these efforts. Specific tasks include: <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy==<br />
Restrictions to travel, supply chain and certain work practices requiring prolonged periods of close proximity with other people meant that certain maintenance and construction tasks were postponed during the initial phases of the pandemic. Changing customer demand profiles have also altered the operating conditions for transmission and generation assets alike. The combination of changing demand, asset utilization, construction and maintenance regimens poses a challenge for grid operators to reschedule maintenance and capital projects in the coming months, given the uncertainty of expected operating conditions. <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability==<br />
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant negative economic impacts which have resonated through the energy system and electric sector globally. Critical questions requiring a comprehensive energy system analysis include: How long and how deep could the COV-19-induced recession last and what are the continued potential impacts on the electric sector in terms of demand, generation capacity, and CO2 emissions and air pollution? Will there be structural changes in economic activity that reduce demand or shift demand between sectors, for example from the commercial to the residential sector? Does the economic slowdown delay deployment of distributed energy; lower gas prices and less commuting to work? Could the pandemic accelerate or slow electrification in transport, buildings, or industry? Could a prolonged global economic slowdown impact the availability of critical materials and minerals for the electric sector? <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==<br />
Pandemics can limit utility’s ability to mobilize maintenance personnel to take care of equipment problems. This poses a risk to the utility’s ability to maintain asset health and aid compliance. By deploying appropriate remote monitoring systems and analyzing monitoring data utilities would gain ability to make confident informed decisions based on advance warnings/insights. It would also provide them with the ability of dispatching personnel when absolutely required.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic&diff=1575Pandemic2022-08-15T14:53:18Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems}}<br />
<br />
This is the homepage of the EPRI supplemental project - Pandemic-Resilient and Sustainable Transmission and Distribution Systems. For more details on the project please visit the website on EPRI.com [https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002019608 HERE] to download the supplemental project notice. <br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary2.png|frame|center|]]<br />
<br />
<br />
The project was developed by EPRI and funded by members with a focus on eight workstreams: <br />
* WS1: Health and Disinfection<br />
* WS2: Control Center Strategies<br />
* WS3: Field Crew Strategies<br />
* WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training<br />
* WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts<br />
* WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy<br />
* WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability<br />
* WS8: Asset Management Strartegies<br />
[[File:Pandemic Summary3.png|frame|center|]]<br />
<br />
EPRI project managers will work on developing the research and will release deliverables associated with the tasks in each workstream in 2021 and 2022. EPRI project managers will regularly host meetings and calls with members to discuss findings and transfer knowledge and learnings. <br />
<br />
==WS1: Health and Disinfection== <br />
<br />
<br />
==WS2 Control Center Design project==<br />
The deliverables associated with workstream 2 - control center strategies are in the format of regularly updated web pages. The aim is to keep these web pages updated as regularly as possible and at a minimum once every quarter as new information emerges about the pandemic, strategies are formulated and tested and new control center designs emerge. <br />
<br />
== WS2 Project Deliverables == <br />
The most recent deliverable web pages are shown below. Please click to browse and interact with the content. <br />
If you would like some further information, or if there is an issue with the content, please contact the WS2 project manager Adrian Kelly (akelly@epri.com) or the overall project manager Paul Myrda (pmyrda@epri.com)<br />
<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-11CCGuidelines|2-11 Identify and document a summary of the leading practices, procedures, mitigations for pandemic response]]<br />
* [[Pandemic/2-12CCDesigns|2-12 Identify and document enhanced design requirements for primary and backup control centers for pandemic operations]]<br />
<br />
==WS3: Field Crew Strategies== <br />
==WS4: Operator and Field Crew Training== <br />
==WS5: Demand and Operations Impacts== <br />
==WS6: Deferred Work and Resource Adequacy== <br />
==WS7: Long-Term Demand and Sustainability== <br />
==WS8: Asset Management Strartegies==</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic/2-13CCProcesses&diff=1574Pandemic/2-13CCProcesses2022-07-29T13:20:56Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE: 2-13 Control Center Task, Processes and Automation}}"</p>
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<div>{{DISPLAYTITLE: 2-13 Control Center Task, Processes and Automation}}</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=Pandemic/child&diff=1573Pandemic/child2022-07-29T13:16:43Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: Created page with " Deliverable Page for Task 2-13 Control Center Tasks and Processes"</p>
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<div><br />
Deliverable Page for Task 2-13 Control Center Tasks and Processes</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:Fig2-4_conv.png&diff=1564File:Fig2-4 conv.png2022-05-11T11:23:27Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>Comparison of LOLE evaluated using economic commitment simulation approach and closed<br />
form approach denoted “must run” at different planning reserve margin levels for test case.</div>EPRI ADMINhttps://gridops.epri.com/index.php?title=File:Fig2-3_conv.png&diff=1563File:Fig2-3 conv.png2022-05-11T11:22:23Z<p>EPRI ADMIN: </p>
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<div>Probability Density Function (PDF) and Cumulative Density Function (CDF) of available capacity<br />
for test system with peak net load ~6GW.</div>EPRI ADMIN