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Bureau of Light

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Government Bureau F-22012151

The Bureau of Light is part of the Ministry of Light & Water.

❊ EFF 01 Jan 01
Registry CMW-01 Reg 01 of 04 ΰΌΆ Est 1952
Headquarters Oslola Thunderburo House
Scale 25 offices
15,030 staff
Bureau of Light
Bureau of the Ministry of Light and Water
Employees 15,030
Established 1952
Headquarters Thunderburo House, Oslola

The Bureau of Light (commonly the Thunderburo) is responsible for electricity supply in the Commonwealth and for the national grid. It is part of the Ministry of Light and Water, and was established in 1952 with its headquarters at Thunderburo House in Oslola.

Most of the country’s power comes from three sources. The geothermal stations of the Magma-Electric Commission sit over the rift between the European and American plates, and their waste heat also warms the greenhouses that a lot of food is grown in. The fusion plants at Oslola and Kairi, which were among the first in the world to supply households, and dozens of fission stations are run by General Reactor, the nuclear bureau corporation, and the bureau licenses and inspects them through its Nuclear-Electric Commission. The Kairi plant opened in 2024, and supplies its heavy industries and neighbouring republics.

Hydro-electric dams are mostly in the glacial interior of the Vekllei Islands and in Kala, and the oldest of them, at Ou, has been running for over 150 years. Most republics have at least one power station held by the ministry as a sovereign area, and the fission stations use uranium-233 fuel from the National Centrifuge & Enrichment Plant in Speidisn.

Departments 7 departments, 25 offices, 15,030 staff

General Headquarters

1,210

Direction of the bureau; parliamentary business, legal advice, press and staff.

  • Office of the Director

  • Parliamentary Branch

  • Press Office

  • Establishments Office

  • Recruitment Office

Department of Generation Planning

820

Long-term planning of generating capacity across the three commissions.

  • Load Forecasting Office

  • New Stations Office

  • Fuel Reserves Office

Department of the Grid

6,310

Transmission, interconnection between republics and emergency load shedding.

  • Office of Transmission

    7 stations

  • National Control Room

  • Office of Emergency Supply

    3 stations

  • Undersea Cables Office

    3 stations

Department of Nuclear Licensing

1,300

Licences for the reactors of General Reactor; reactor fuel; closure of old stations.

  • Reactor Licensing Office

    2 stations

  • Fuel Office

  • Decommissioning Office

Department of Supply

2,960

Supply to the municipalities; small-island generation.

  • Municipal Supply Office

    7 stations

  • Island Generation Office

    8 stations

  • Tariffs & Metering Office

Department of Heat

1,010

Waste heat from the geothermal stations; district heating and greenhouses.

  • Office of District Heating

    2 stations

  • Greenhouse Heat Office

    2 stations

Department of Safety

1,420

Safety rules for generating stations; investigation of accidents.

  • Office of Nuclear Safety

  • Office of Dam Safety

  • Office of Geothermal Safety

    1 stations

  • Accidents Office

Interwork Detachments What is a detachment?
Grid Resilience Detachment
with Emergency Light and Water Authority
Restoration of supply after storms, eruptions and earthquakes
Kairi Fusion Supply Detachment
with General Reactor
Load and transmission from the Kairi fusion plant to its neighbouring republics
Constituents 4 bodies
Magma-Electric Commission
(The Magma): Geothermal stations, forty-six in all, and the heat they supply to greenhouses.
Hydro-Electric Commission
(The Hydro): Dams and hydro-electric stations, including Ou and the Frontera station on Meridia.
Nuclear-Electric Commission
(Atomic Vekllei): Licensing and inspection of nuclear stations; reactor fuel.
Commonwealth Grid Authority
Interconnection, load and transmission on the national grid.