CSG Begins Anti-Icing in Advance of Massive Winter Storms;
Senior Managers Making Full Preparations for Tough Winter Months Ahead

Guangzhou - Directly impacted by La Niña, this winter is expected to see lower than average temperatures with extensive rainfall and snowfall throughout China, according to the National Meteorological Office, noting that extremely cold weather that is severe and long-lasting is possible.
To avoid possible direct challenges to its energy grid, China Southern Power Grid senior managers have launched an advance schedule of anti-icing work.
In the near future, the Company will issue overall and specific work plans concerning employees dispatch, power supply services and equipment repair. In addition, it will organize teams of specialists to supervise the work in many provinces including Guizhou, Guangxi and Guangdong prior to November 20.
On October 28, CSG senior managers held a special meeting in which 17 specific measures were proposed for three deep cold winter stages, namely before, during, and after anti-icing action.
These measures include:

·Analyzing weather trends and anti-icing abilities
·Formulating and implementing the anti-icing dispatch plans
·Maintaining the melting and de-icing equipment and online icing-monitoring systems, and
·Preparing for emergencies.
Company senior managers said its staff and engineers will be fully equipped and prepared for the worst possible conditions and will rapidly complete all anti-icing work as they manifest.
According to a special report released by the CSG Technology Department … freezing disasters in the south are expected to befall onto Guizhou, Yunnan, northern Guangxi and northern Guangdong, among which Guizhou may suffer the most in frequency, duration and damage with major winter storms not seen since 1961, where Guizhou experienced 119 freezing disasters at the provincial level - a situation where eight counties of a province suffer simultaneous freezing disasters.
In addition to enhancing the anti-icing capabilities of the power grid itself, senior managers representing the Guizhou Power Grid will be rapidly dispatching engineers to check for any weather-related faults that may affect safe operation of the power transmission lines against possible extreme weather where it is planned that all possible faults among 94 icing-warning devices are expected to be eradicated before November 30.
On October 21, Guizhou Power Grid senior managers - for the first time - directed the Beidou satellite positioning system to look down onto icing-warning devices installed on the 220-kV copper amalgam II wires. In the past, the positioning terminals that would be severely subjected to faults could only be found with the help of operators, but with Beidou, the positioning terminals can be located instantly which improves the efficiency of discovering faults as well as maintenance of electrical transmission lines.
Since the ice disaster which slammed into the heartland of China during the Olympic Year 2008, China Southern Power Grid engineers use the highest international standards to reinforce all impacted electrical transmission lines.
Additionally, Company engineers have set up an icing warning system and an alternative power grid that is ready to go against all potential disasters and emergencies - culminating with a market-leading anti-icing systems that feature the exclusive characteristics of China Southern Power Grid.