Electric Utilities Sector Supplement - Global Reporting Initiative

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Indicator Protocols Set: EC
EU6: Management approach to ensure
short and long-term electricity availability
and reliability.
1. Relevance
This provides information on the reporting organization’s
plans and processes to ensure reliability, delivering
sufficient capacity to the market and ensuring the grid
capacity to transport or distribute to the customer. This
is an important sustainability issue since electricity is an
essential service for socio-economic stability. Daily lives
are increasingly dependent on electricity,which is key for
enabling access to many technologies and services.
This indicator is closely linked to EU10 which describes
the planned capacity (in MW) against projected
electricity demand.
2. Compilation
2.1 Identify approaches to assess key challenges
related to meeting the balance of supply and
demand (e.g. timing of investments) or market
needs. These approaches can include scenario
planning or alternatives analysis (e.g. Integrated
Resource Planning) to evaluate different sites,
technologies and social, environmental, regulatory
and economic implications.
2.2 Report management approaches to address each
challenge. These approaches can include:
• Short and long-term maintenance practices;
• Peak load management, such as orderly planned
interruptible supply agreements to ensure
electricity supply.
• Investment or divestment in generation,
transmission and distribution and demand
management, (e.g. maintain reserve levels,
smart grids).
3. Definitions
None.
4. Documentation
Resource planning department, operations and
distribution services and public records/information
5. References
None.
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