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17/01/23 08:54 AM IST

CEA releases disaster management plan for power sector

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  • The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has released the disaster management plan (DMP) for the power sector in a bid to evolve a proactive and integrated approach to strengthen disaster mitigation, preparedness, emergency response, and recovery efforts.
Features of the DMP
  • The DMP provides a framework and direction to the utilities in the power sector for all phases of the disaster management cycle.
  • It is intended to guide all agencies within the sector with a general concept of potential emergencies and roles and assignments before, during, and following emergency situations.
  • To estimate threats to power infrastructure, it is pertinent that fragility and vulnerability analysis is carried out for civil structures like buildings and foundations in transmission and distribution facilities.
  • The main objectives of the DMP are to find out the quantitative risk involved in power networks and to devise effective strategies for prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery.
  • It includes investing in risk mapping globally, creating a network of universities working on disaster-related issues, leveraging social media and mobile technologies for disaster risk reduction, as well as building local capacities for disaster management, reduction, and relief.
  • The CEA emphasised that to estimate threats to power infrastructure, it is pertinent that fragility and vulnerability analysis is carried out for civil structures like buildings, tall structures, foundations in the generation infrastructures, towers, gantry structures, and foundations in transmission and distribution facilities.
Source- Hindu Businessline

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