Managing Change and Maintaining Compliance

Managing Change and Maintaining Compliance

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...
Western Reliability Coordinator Transition Update

Western Reliability Coordinator Transition Update

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...
Be Secure, Not Just Compliant

Be Secure, Not Just Compliant

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...
Changing of the Guard: Good, Bad, or Indifferent?

Changing of the Guard: Good, Bad, or Indifferent?

–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...
CAISO Phase One Update

CAISO Phase One Update

Was your organization part of the majority that received deficiency letters from California ISO recently?  In August 2018, CAISO introduced a revised Business Practice Manual for Transmission Planning Process (BPM), which included new data requirements for...