{"id":343309,"date":"2020-03-25T10:08:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T04:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=343309"},"modified":"2020-03-25T10:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T04:51:56","slug":"ensure-supply-grid-security-contingency-plans-afoot-for-power-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ensure-supply-grid-security-contingency-plans-afoot-for-power-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensure supply, grid security: Contingency plans afoot for power sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With India going into a complete lockdown, power generators (gencos), suppliers, and grid operators are entering the contingency mode to ensure seamless supply with minimum manpower. While the country\u2019s largest power generator, NTPC, initiated an emergency plan a week ago, Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) has shifted complete to remote operations. <\/p>\n<p>The most important part of the power supply chain \u2014 power grid operator POSOCO and its five load dispatch centres (LDCs) \u2014 are acting on a detailed contingency plan. The LDCs \u2014located in five regions \u2014 monitor, schedule, and forecast the supply of power in their respective regions. <\/p>\n<p>The contingency plan prepared and circulated on Monday enlisted a 15-point agenda for \u201censuring supply and grid security in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak\u201d. This included having reserve manpower for operating in case of any emergency and establishing temporary control rooms at every LDC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With India going into a complete lockdown, power generators (gencos), suppliers, and grid operators are entering the contingency mode to ensure seamless supply with minimum manpower. While the country\u2019s largest power generator, NTPC, initiated an emergency plan a week ago, Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) has shifted complete to remote operations. The most important part of the power supply chain \u2014 power grid operator POSOCO and its five load dispatch centres (LDCs) \u2014 are acting on a detailed contingency plan. The LDCs \u2014located in five regions \u2014 monitor, schedule, and forecast the supply of power in their respective regions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}