[Dark Wing]

This was on another forum I frequent —

“I expect there will be some (possibly significant) impacts to the power grid.

I am a large hydroelectric control room operator in Northern California. Luckily, my management has implemented a fairly solid risk reduction plan. Only one operator in the control room, shift turnover via email and phone calls, no maintenance staff reporting to work unless called in, and strict disinfection protocols. Will this keep us from getting sick? No chance. Hopefully it might slow the spread, and allow enough of us to keep working at any given time going forward.

I do worry about some of the more manpower heavy power plants (large gas powered or nuclear plants). They cannot operate with as lean of a crew as we can here.

And we aren’t even talking about the effects on line crews (they cannot work alone) or supply chain disruptions.”

[cgbg]

There are thousands of things that may be difficult to address with this, but utility manpower can be moved around the country--this is fixable--

much, much easier to deal with than the clear and present danger of a health care system overload--with no way to move the patients without endangering them further.

[Pollard]

Wonder about coal fired plants. I think we may be on one. Sure wish my solar power components didn’t mostly need replacing. I need four golf cart batteries and a new charge controller. $700 or so. It’s only 400 watts but it will run my LED lighting and the deep freezer. Will run cordless phone and dsl modem but only charge one laptop. Can run the tv and stream.

[BobL]

“They cannot operate with as lean of a crew as we can here...And we aren’t even talking about the effects on line crews (they cannot work alone) or supply chain disruptions.””

Oh PLEASE, all we need is Mnunchkin adding some ‘liquidity’ into our powerplants and all will be fine...at least according to the Flubros.