Ref. Ares(2021)4296942 - 01/07/2021
ENTSO-E Steering Group System Resilience
Update Covid-19: update on energy aspects
17 November 2020, ECG meeting
ENTSO-E, ECG Meeting, 17 November 2020
Covid-19 measures of TSOs - outlook for impacts
Return to work strategy
• Think about al areas where employees may meet each other (house restaurant, meeting rooms)
• implement rules where distance keeping is not possible (stairs, elevators, office with more than 3
persons)
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airing rules for al rooms
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CO measurement in smal rooms
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But now again
• same rules as in springtime (traveling restrictions, meetings not al owed)
• lowering number of employees in office and limitation per room
• Some TSOs implemented strict internal process for employees’ tracking in premises (who is the
contact person of a contact person of a person being in quarantine)
Control center environment
• same procedure (working in fixed shifts, using back-up centers for two different groups of
staff or leave it clean for sudden infections or quarantine obligations for a whole building)
• limitation of contact between control center staff and others
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Covid-19 measures of TSOs - outlook for impacts
Recent resurgence experiences
• TSOs are much better prepared to work under Covid-19 conditions
• Authorities are also better organized (health service, local authorities and state authorities)
• The ongoing second lockdown is much better aligned with core and critical business for the
society (schools and Kindergarten are open, restaurants and hotels are closed, leisure activities are
limited)
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general y speaking working under Covid-19 is a bit “business-as-usual”
Business continuity
• Al European TSOs have stable core business processes (system operation, grid maintenance)
• Regular update of Covid-19 measures and impacts on business process among al European TSOs,
central data base within ENTSO-E
• Lowering number of employees in office and limitation per room
• Some TSOs implemented strict internal process for employees’ tracking in premises (who is the
contact person of a contact person of a person being in quarantine)
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Covid-19 measures of TSOs - outlook for impacts
Communication within European countries and among them
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communication between governments and operators are stil in regular use (mail, telcos) on
different levels (State authorities, federal government, regulator)
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European TSOs share best practice
Concerns for the future
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remarkable number of infections within core business processes with the risk of interruption / worse
quality of energy supply / other core services
Key recommendations
• being prepared for worst cases like using infected but symptom-free employees in an isolated way
• working in isolated teams staying at the premise for some weeks
• monitoring al mid and long term impacts on grid development
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Thank you for your attention!
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