Nordic contingency Planning and Crisis Management

Foreword

Since the first half of the 1990s, the energy authorities of the
Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Swe-
den, - have held regular meetings about contingency planning
and management in the Nordic power sectors. These meetings
were formalized in 2004 by means of a Letter of Intent signed
by the Nordic countries.

At present, Nordic co-operation in contingency planning and
management in the power sectors centres on two interconnected
forums. The key forum is the Nordic Energy Authorities’
Group for Emergency Matters in the Power Sector - Nordisk
Myndighetsgrupp för Kraftförsörjningsberedskap (NMK) - which
consists of all the energy authorities. This co-operation centres
on information exchange and experience sharing between the
authorities, but can also take the form of joint projects.

In order for this co-operation to also include the TSOs and other
significant parties in the Nordic power sector, a larger group has
been established based on NMK and called The Nordic Forum
for Emergency Matters regarding the Power Sector - Nordisk El-
beredskaps- och Säkerhetsforum (NEF) - consisting of NMK plus
the TSOs and other organizations of the power industry. This
forum is open to other relevant parties within the power sector. The objective of the forum is to conduct a dialogue between the
involved parties regarding contingency planning and management
in the power sector. NEF deals with issues which are not
managed by means of TSO co-operation via Nordel.

Co-operation is important for the security of the electricity
supply under normal conditions and before, during, and after
serious disruptions and crises. Within the EU, the concept of
“security of supply” refers to supply preparedness in general
and includes supply security during serious disruptions caused
by climatic conditions, or a shortage of generating capacity.

The term Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) was originally
used by NATO. The term is also used nowadays in a more
general meaning to refer to the services and systems used by
society. Safeguarding the vital functions of society and the
security of supply functions, which have already been in use
previously, is gaining increasing attention within the EU. This is
why it is useful that the efforts of NEF and NMK are guided and
augmented in the direction of the EU. This will probably also
have an effect on the topics, contents, and publication methods
of research projects and reports carried out within the scope of
Nordic energy co-operation.

Risto Leukkunen
Chairman

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