TORONTO – A group of personnel key to keeping Ontario’s electricity system functioning may end up locked down in their control centres due to the COVID-19 crisis, according to the head of the province’s power operator.
But that has so far proven unnecessary with a change-up in routine, Independent Electricity System Operator CEO Peter Gregg said.
While about 90 per cent of staff were sent to work from home on March 13, another 48 control-room operators deemed essential are still going into work, Gregg said in an interview. “We identified a smaller cohort of critical operations room staff that need to go in to operate the system out of our control centres,” Gregg said. “My biggest concern is to maintain their health, their safety as we rely