The world’s first space-based system to help identify specific sources of greenhouse gas emissions is now circling the Earth. The main unit in the network, an orbiter called the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (Tropomi), is a package of state-of-the-art sensors...
By Richard Schlottman, NERC Reliability Specialist All too often the effort required to maintain an effective NERC compliance program at the plant level may be time consuming and burdensome once combined with numerous other high priorities. Why is that so? As with any...
By Shaun Rohret, NERC Reliability Specialist As grid reliability becomes more of a focus internationally, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is leading the way. Here is the latest on what is happening: CanadaIn Canada the role of NERC is...
By Alan Bull, General Manager, Compliance Services With the California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO) announcement on January 2, 2018 that it plans to withdraw from Peak Reliability (Peak), effective September 2019, in order to become its own Reliability...
CMMS Demystified Maximo 7.6: Why You Should Upgrade or Switch to It by Megan Matthews – Project Engineer, CMMS Services, NAES Corporation Many of you are currently using Maximo 7.1, Maximo 7.5, MP2 or another CMMS system. If so, you may be wondering, “If my system is...
