COVID-19 and the Impact on Transmission Around the Globe

COVID-19 and the Impact on Transmission Around the Globe

Held in collaboration with PwC

Power and utility companies around the world have moved fast to implement emergency measures to safeguard staff and operations while also keeping the lights on. Now many are moving on to the next stage in the pandemic response and considering what might be the new normal beyond the initial crisis and the pathway forward

Nearly 500 participants from more than 60 countries joined this global webcast hosted in collaboration with PwC. They heard directly from five speakers on how the crisis is unfolding and what lies ahead including the Council’s Secretary General and CEO Dr Angela Wilkinson, discussing the Council's community-wide COVID work, along with Daniel Brooks, Vice President, Integrated Grid and Energy Systems, EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute), USA; John Cleland, CEO, Essential Energy, Australia; Simon Loh Fook Cheong, Director Group Risk & Business Continuity Management, SingPower, Singapore; and Bill Magness, CEO, ERCOT, Texas, USA.

The webinar covered key areas including energy resilience through the crisis, demand downturn and upturn, practical steps that have made a difference, the debate over mandatory sequestration of control room operators, a ‘new normal’ for ways of working, and a ‘new normal’ for the wider energy sector. 

Learn more: Coming in early June, the World Energy Council and PwC will release an in-depth brief on the role of electricity transmission as an energy transition enabler. What critical new infrastructure will we need? What will the electricity mix of the future look like? What level of electrification of end-uses will we reach? Based on interviews with CEOs and senior energy leaders from 35 countries, the brief will evaluate at these questions and more areas that Transmission System Operators are working to incorporate into their future strategies. A series of digital workshops and webinars will follow.