Dear Reader, Welcome to the First Issue of In The Loop for 2020. It certainly has been quite a disruptive start to the year with the spread of COVID-19 and many of our members now working from home. The CIGRE office is also now primarily working from home offices and we are looking at ways that we may be able to continue to provide value to members whilst they are at home. We are still evaluating the best options, but this may be through more webinars, technical articles or links to online resources. This edition of ITL includes four articles. The first and second are technical articles on some work that has been done on the likely impact of Geo-magnetic storms on our grid and a joint working group that looked at how reliability standards/market rules can be used to help maintain system reliability and market efficiency. The third article draws your attention to a relatively recent CIGRE initiative of the GREEN BOOKS. The GREEN BOOKS, of which there are currently six, are substantial state of the art reference books which bring together all the existing Technical Brochures and other relevant publications for a particular domain of work, All the GREEN Books are available for purchase on the e-cigre site and can be accessed HERE The final item in this ITL references the CIGRE Webinars which are available FREE on the e-cigre site - The Webinars run for around 50mins and present some recently completed Technical Brochures, generally presented by the Working Group Chairperson. Events Unfortunately due to the global impact of the Coronavirus, we had to postpone our planned Transformer Workshop and at this stage are considering the timing and staging of other events that we would normally hold. For those that may be considering attending, the biennial Paris Session scheduled for the end of August is also currently being reviewed by our global office. An announcement from the Paris Office is expected mid April. You can stay in touch by following us on our social media and websites and we are still contactable via email and phone. linkedIn account is HERE TWITTER account HERE. subscribe to keep up to date and in touch. Thank you for reading and from all of us at CIGRE - stay safe during this challenging period. Terry Killen Executive Manager CIGRE Australia =====================================
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