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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...
Managing Change and Maintaining Compliance
Sean Thompson, Supervisor, NERC Services Throughout the life of a power plant, many changes will affect all phases of operations and maintenance. Due to the sophistication of most power plants, it is critical to ensure...
Western Reliability Coordinator Transition Update
Shaun Rohret, NERC Reliability Specialist, NERC Services The End of 2019 has brought some big changes to Reliability Coordination in the Western Interconnection. Per the July 18, 2018 notification, Peak Reliability, the Reliability Coordinator (RC)...
Be Secure, Not Just Compliant
How to increase security by adding simple High/Medium Requirements to your Low-Impact program. Going beyond “let’s do what’s required to be compliant,” to a mindset of how do we protect ourselves and the BES at...
Changing of the Guard: Good, Bad, or Indifferent?
–PRC-001 set to retire, but its replacements may be more stringent William Boulware, NERC Reliability Specialist, NERC Services NERC Reliability Standard PRC-001 is set to retire September 30, 2020 and two new standards, PER-006-1 and...
CAISO Phase One Update
Was your organization part of the majority that received deficiency letters from California ISO recently? In August 2018, CAISO introduced a revised Business Practice Manual for Transmission Planning Process (BPM), which included new data requirements...
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Cyber Security Awareness month (NCSAM) is held every October as a collaboration between the US government and industries. The purpose of this month long event is to raise awareness of cybersecurity and provide resources...
Winterization Watchlist
By Jack Jackson, Sr Reliability Specialist NERC Services As we come in to fall the threat of unexpected and severe winter becomes a daily ritual of checking the weather to see how much you need...
2019 NYC Power Outage
2019 NYC Power Outage By Joseph Bennett, Senior NERC Reliability Specialist On July 13, 2019, approximately 70,000 to 73,000 people lost power in a 30-block area of Midtown Manhattan and Manhattan’s west side. A tourist-filled...
Cyber Security Awareness – Own IT
By Michiko Sell, Sr NERC CIP Specialist October is National Cyber Security Awareness month. This year’s overarching message – Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT. – will focus on key areas including citizen privacy, consumer...
