Simon Westcott / Chief Operating Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
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Switching off high-risk lines on Catastrophic fire days is a legitimate tool for a rural network, but only if the rule is published before summer, backup supply for water, telecommunications and life support is already in place, and the network counts the harm it causes as carefully as the fires it prevents.
Read the essaySwitching off high-risk lines on Catastrophic fire days is a legitimate tool for a rural network, but only if the rule is published before summer, backup supply for water, telecommunications and life support is already in place, and the network counts the harm it causes as carefully as the fires it prevents.
When a thermal station closes, the most useful thing its owner can give the workforce is a date fixed years ahead and kept. Payments matter less than people expect, resident contractors belong inside the plan, and any deferral should come with a new fixed date of its own.
After a major storm, an estimated restoration time becomes a promise the moment a customer acts on it. Networks should hold estimates until damage has been seen, publish ranges by town on a fixed schedule, have them signed by the people who must meet them, and report how many they kept.