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FINDING THE ECONOMIC OPTIMUM IN POWER PLANT O&M
WHY THE LOWEST O&M BUDGET IS RARELY THE MOST PROFITABLE By: Robert Wolfe, Director of Asset Optimization, NAES Executive Summary. O&M budgets should be evaluated by the operating margin they enable, not by cost adherence alone. The optimal investment level...
Inverter Based Resources and NERC
By William White, NERC Sr Reliability Specialist As demand for renewable energy resources increase, the effects and inherent risk to the Bulk Power System (BPS) increases as well. As the North American Reliability Corporation stated...
Changes to the Texas Electric Market to Improve Reliability
by Mike Moyer, Power Market Compliance Services Specialist In February 2021, Texas experienced an unprecedented and historical eight-day period of winter weather, winter storm Uri. Most areas of the state saw 5 to 6 consecutive...
Online Password Manager – What to Look for And How to Protect Yourself
So, you followed what the experts say and set “5z@H8w$0f$yj^k” as your password then saved it to your SuperSecure password vault. But what do you do when your entire vault is stolen? Storing your passwords...
Electrical Infrastructure Attacks on the Rise
By Richard Schlottmann, NERC Project Manager Every day it seems there are new attacks or vulnerabilities reported through EIASC (NERC’s reporting portal for physical and cyber-attacks on grid assets). It is good to see that...
NOAA Data Mining
By Joshua Brantley, NERC Reliability Specialist In the rapidly changing world that we live in, there have many approaches to making the Power Grid more reliable. The most recent push has been for the Extreme...
Internal Controls for Compliance
by Walt Bukowski, NERC Reliability Specialist No other topic has gained as much attention in the electric industry lately as Internal Control, and the ongoing concerns over cyber-security risk to the Bulk Electric System. Depending...
Network Perception and NAES Corporation Partner to Streamline NERC CIP Audits of Energy Industry Networks
ISSAQUAH, Wash, April 18, 2023 – Network Perception, innovators of operational technology (OT) solutions that protect mission-critical assets, and NAES Corporation, the energy industry’s largest independent provider of operations, maintenance, and repair services, have announced a...
NAES, DeNexus Partner to Understand, Quantify, Plan, and Mitigate Risk of Cyber Events to Critical Infrastructure
(ISSAQUAH, WA, April 18, 2023) – NAES Corporation, the power generation industry’s largest independent providers of operations and maintenance, has announced a partnership with DeNexus Inc, the leading provider of second-generation cyber risk quantification and...
2023 NAES Safety Conference Provides Lots of Celebrations
NAES’s 2023 Safety Conference netted a lot of participation and celebrations: In addition to 140 attendees, 76 power plants earned Safety Champion awards, and 91% of NAES’s entire fleet worked Injury free in 2022. “Our...
