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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...
CIP: More Than Just a Buzzword – Do You Have Evidence of Implementation?
By Leland McMillan, Supervisor, NERC Services January 1, 2020 is almost here and the highly anticipated pressure to complete the CIP-003-7 cyber security plans will be over. Or will it? Background: Since 2017, registered entities...
MAIN CHALLENGES WHEN STARTING COMMERCIAL OPERATION OF A POWER STATION
There is a very famous saying “all fingers are different”. The meaning applies to power generation plants as well, there are no power stations that are the same neither in infrastructure nor in their environment,...
Wholesale Energy Market Expectations (WEM)
Mexico, despite being one of the largest economies in Latin America, does not stand out for its great sporting achievements, development, or educational system. Instead, Mexico does stand out for negative issues such as violence...
Tuxpan II and V Combined Cycle Power Stations
NAES-MEXICO operates and maintains the Tuxpan II and V combined cycle power plants, which generate 990 MW of electricity with CFE (Electricity Federal Commission) as a client; currently both plants have a comprehensive management system...
A Compliance Manager’s Guide to Shaping Compliance Culture
By William White, NERC Reliability Specialist So here we go again; compliance, standards, and requirements. Many of your plant employees may be asking, “why are we doing this?” and “does it really matter?” At some...
CORES, Align and the Expansion of the ERO Portal
By Jack Jackson, Sr NERC Reliability Specialist Over the past several years, NERC has been working with the regions to centralize several processes through the NERC ERO Portal. Most familiar to Generator Operators would be...
NERC Spy: Insider’s Guide to VAR-002 for Generators
By Michael Tate, NERC Reliability Specialist VAR-002, a standard with roots back to the 2003 blackout, is a trending audit item for Generator Operators. Some generators are constrained by a narrow voltage schedule issued by...
Leak-Testing with Helium Helps Eliminate Degradation of Gas Turbine Performance
by Hugo Ordoñez Ruiz and Henry Barrios García – Plant Manager and Plant Engineer, Nuevo Pemex Cogeneration Facility The Challenge The Nuevo Pemex cogeneration facility, located in the State of Tabasco, Mexico, is equipped with...
Mobile Backup Battery Bank Streamlines Discharge-Testing
by Hugo Ordoñez Ruiz, Henry Barrios García and Ernesto Hernández Peña – Nuevo Pemex, Tabasco, Mexico The Challenge We wanted to find a way to reliably perform battery discharge-testing as stipulated by the IEEE as...
