On March 6th, Allen Kent presented a 75 minute overview of the Bulk Electric System, NERC history, and NERC CIP Compliance requirements to Western Washington University students in the Computer Science programs. There were about 27 students & faculty in...
Helping utilities make the most of their existing transmission and distribution infrastructure By Donna Rennemo, President & CEO, WindSim Americas Inc. As utilities consider the replacement of aging infrastructure and incorporating renewables from remote...
By Allen Kent, NERC CIP Specialist, NAES Corporation I attended GridSecCon2018, the NERC E-ISAC security conference, in October 2018. Every other year E-ISAC has put on a GridEx incident response exercise including Responsible Entities and government agencies...
By John Schmoker, Compliance Testing Services Project Manager In somewhat of a departure from tradition, NERC’s most recently adopted protection and control standard, PRC-027-1, gives entities additional flexibility for establishing compliance. As is always the case...
On August 1, 2018, CAISO introduced a revised Business Practice Manual for Transmission Planning Process (BPM), which includes new data requirements for interconnected generation resources within the ISO’s footprint. Section 10 of the BPM establishes revised data...
