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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...
Data: The Nexus of Digitization and Renewable Energy
by Ian Goepferd, General Manager of O&M Services In 2019, NAES rolled out our NextGen strategy. Included in that plan was a focus on Digitization and Renewable Energy. Digitization, in this context, reflects our desire...
Environmental Considerations in a New Year & New Administration
by Pamela Berner, Director of Environmental Services On January 20, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 13990, “Protecting Public Health and The Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis”. This order established initiatives...
NAES Assessment Program Upgrade
by Rob McCranie, NAES Project Manager These are exciting times at NAES as we move forward in improving the execution of how NAES performs Plant Assessments. Last year NAES formed a working group with the...
WECC Reliability & Security Workshop Summary
By Leland McMillan, NERC Services Supervisor NAES’s WECC-Lead, Leland McMillan (Supervisor, NERC Services), recently attended via webinar the WECC Reliability & Security Workshop meeting held on October 27-28. NAES NERC Services has summarized the conference’s...
Evolving Resource Mix is Changing Reliability, Security and Resilience Landscape, Assessment Finds
The following appeared in the December 2020 issue of NERC News, the NERC newsletter. By William Boulware, NERC Reliability Specialist ATLANTA – The 2020 Long-Term Reliability Assessment finds sufficient resource adequacy across most of North...
What is a Geomagnetic Disturbance and How Does It Affect the Power Grid?
By Joseph Bennett, NERC Senior Reliability Specialist A geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) is also referred to as a geomagnetic storm. A geomagnetic storm is defined as a major disturbance of Earth’s magnetosphere that occurs when there...
Evolution of Regulatory Oversight
By Leland McMillan, NERC Services Supervisor Remember the days of audits every 6 years? Oh wait, did you think they were still doing that? In the past, the regions held to a fairly strict schedule...
Compliant vs Secure
NERC CIP is a Cyber Security Framework which contain a set of requirements designed to secure the critical assets required for operating the North American Bulk Electric System, to what extent is up to the...
Don’t Lose Sight of Your Implementation Plan
By Jack Jackson, NERC Senior Reliability Specialist While the big season of implementation and phased implementation plans is past the idea of the implementation plan is here to stay. And while there aren’t as many...
