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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...
Capitalizing on Compliance – Disturbance Monitoring Solutions
By Steve Nollette, Principal Engineer, EXPERT POWER SOLUTIONS, Inc. To fulfill the requirements of NERC PRC-002-2, consider evaluating the existing protection and control system for partial compliance, before installing a single-purpose device, such as a Digital Disturbance Recorder (DDR). Many...
GADS Reporting
Sean Thompson, Supervisor, NERC Services For years the North American Electric Reliability Corporation NERC GADS reporting has consisted of fossil plants reporting their data to NERC on a quarterly basis. Now as the country is...
COVID-19 & The Grid
By Mike Moyer – Power Market Compliance Services Specialist, NAES NERC Services Coronavirus or COVID-19, is a disease that causes a respiratory tract infection. Typically affecting your upper respiratory tract (sinuses, nose and throat) and...
MOD-025-2 and PRC-019-2
Richard Schulte, NERC Reliability Specialist 2016 does not seem like that long ago, when plants were performing Real and Reactive Power testing for MOD-025-2, and the voltage regulating system controls coordination study for PRC-019-2 to...
RC Transition Report
Leland McMillan, Supervisor NERC Services WECC “The purpose of the following “close out” report is to document the transition efforts involved in moving the RC function in the Western Interconnection from the Peak RC to...
Reliability Amid Coronavirus
Sean Thompson, Supervisor NERC Services The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) announced today they are taking steps to ensure that operators of the bulk electric system can...
Combined Cycle Cogeneration Plant Budget Evaluation
Background A NAES-operated 1×1 combined cycle cogeneration plant was approaching the end of its Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with its power offtaker. Annual plant power generation capacity factor had declined, and PPA-provided capacity payments were diminishing. The plant’s owners desired to optimize operation...
NAGF Activity Summary
Wayne Sipperly Jr., Executive Coordinator, North American Generator Forum NAES is a member of the North American Generator Forum (NAGF) which provides a network of generation industry compliance, operations, equipment technical experts whose collective knowledge...
E-ISAC Bulletin: Cyber Security
Leland McMillan, Supervisor, NERC Services NAES participates in and tracks various industry initiatives and organizations to stay abreast of pertinent issues. The Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC), in collaboration with the Department of...
