By John Branch, NERC Power Market Compliance Services Specialist Over the past decade natural gas has been crowned king in the energy industry. However, renewable energy has made great leaps and bounds to solidify a position in the energy space. With the constant...
By Richard Schlottmann, NERC Senior Reliability Compliance Specialist The Joint NERC and Texas RE Staff Report regarding the Texas events of May 9 and June 26 evaluates the first disturbance involving a widespread reduction of solar photovoltaic (PV) resource power...
By Sean Thompson, Supervisor NERC Services The 2021 State of Reliability – An Assessment of 2020 Bulk Power System Performance was recently released by NERC. Some key findings from the report follow. Outages due to human error and equipment failure continued to...
By Michiko Sell, Supervisor NERC CIP Services Often times we are fully dependent upon ‘implementation plans’ or ‘proposed builds’ that are provided by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) of Industrial Control Systems (ICS). If asked “do things ever go as...
By Will White, Senior NERC Reliability Compliance Specialist Who would believe leading up to April of 2015 that over 6 years later we would still be closely monitoring the implementation plan of a NERC Standard and its Requirements? PRC-005 is just that Standard. As...
