Leland McMillan, Supervisor, NERC Services NAES participates in and tracks various industry initiatives and organizations to stay abreast of pertinent issues. The Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC), in collaboration with the Department...
Sean Thompson, Supervisor, NERC Services Throughout the life of a power plant, many changes will affect all phases of operations and maintenance. Due to the sophistication of most power plants, it is critical to ensure that all operations and maintenance activities...
Shaun Rohret, NERC Reliability Specialist, NERC Services The End of 2019 has brought some big changes to Reliability Coordination in the Western Interconnection. Per the July 18, 2018 notification, Peak Reliability, the Reliability Coordinator (RC) for most of the...
How to increase security by adding simple High/Medium Requirements to your Low-Impact program. Going beyond “let’s do what’s required to be compliant,” to a mindset of how do we protect ourselves and the BES at all times, it would be a great idea to consider some of...
–PRC-001 set to retire, but its replacements may be more stringent William Boulware, NERC Reliability Specialist, NERC Services NERC Reliability Standard PRC-001 is set to retire September 30, 2020 and two new standards, PER-006-1 and PRC-027-1, are set to take...