Today was the 1st day at CEB head office. It’s situated near the lake house. We left our bags at the security office. (They didn’t give us any token) The transmission and generation planning division is on the 5th floor. We got a temporary pass from the security desk and went on the tricky elevator to the 5th floor. We are supposed to come there before 9am. We are off at 4.15pm. There’s a book to sign at the office on the 5th floor as you come in the morning and leave in the afternoon. We are trained under the chief engineer transmission planning and chief engineer generation planning. The transmission planning office is squeezed in to the generation planning office because of maintenance work, so there’s very less place. Therefore group 1 (that’s us) and group 2 were put together to learn generation planning during this week. According to the schedule we have generation planning on the 17th week. But we are going to do generation planning this week and transmission planning on the 17th week with the last group. We were given security passes today itself. The appointment letter and the schedule were required for the passes today. We cannot get permission to use the CEB head office car park.

We waited till about 11am until the CE had a bit of time for us. Then he gave us an introduction to what is being done here. He gave us a list of things to ask from other engineers who were working there. We are supposed to go and get details on them when they having a bit of free time.