Game Plans

摘要

WE'RE USED TO LINEWORKERS BEING THE FACE OF ELECTRIC UTILITIES. These employees are out there keeping the power on, and they're also on the front lines of restoration efforts to turn the lights back on in communities hit by natural disasters. Behind the scenes, however, are system operators at the utility and regional levels that are every bit as vital to keeping kilowatts flowing through transmission and distribution system wires. The novelcoro-navirus pandemic has forced a number of these organizations to open emergency-operation playbooks they've previously only used in hypothetical war-game-style exercises.