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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...
Backwashing the Closed Cycle Heat Exchanger
Backwashing the Closed Cycle Heat Exchangerby Jorge Esparza – Plant Manager, Leonel Rosas – Production Director,and Erasmo Casados – Operations Manager, Tuxpan II & V, Veracruz, Mexico The ChallengeIn the MHI´s operating procedures of the...
Megan Matthews and Kimberly Greene Speak on Maximo
Kimberly Greene and Megan Matthews are presenting at Maximo World on Thursday, August 8 at 10 AM. The conference takes place from August 6-8, in Orlando Florida. To register click Here.
Pre/Post Outage Thermal Performance Evaluation
Pre/Post Outage Thermal Performance Evaluation by Sanjeev Jolly, P.E. – Senior Engineer, Engineering Services NAES has developed pre/post outage thermal performance guidelines to assist plants in quantifying changes in combustion turbine (CT) performance because of...
Maximo Barcoding: Where Has it Been All Our Lives?
by Megan Matthews, Project Engineer, CMMS Services at NAES Corporation Every plant staff I visit has a list of improvements they want to see in their CMMS system. For most of them, barcode scanning for...
The Dissolution of FRCC
By Daniel Jenkins, NERC Reliability Specialist As you know, on October 30, 2018, the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council, Inc. (FRCC), Board of Directors approved a timeline and plan to terminate its Amended and Restated Delegation...
Anti-Market Manipulation Training
By Mike Moyer, PMCS Specialist The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has been actively enforcing the new laws and regulations authorized by Congress in the 2005 amendments to the Federal Power Act (FPA). One of...
NERC CIP Lecture at Western Washington University
On March 6th, Allen Kent presented a 75 minute overview of the Bulk Electric System, NERC history, and NERC CIP Compliance requirements to Western Washington University students in the Computer Science programs. There were about...
Transmission Line Ampacity Improvements using Optimized Forecasting Solution for Grid Operations
Helping utilities make the most of their existing transmission and distribution infrastructure By Donna Rennemo, President & CEO, WindSim Americas Inc. As utilities consider the replacement of aging infrastructure and incorporating renewables from remote locations,...
GridSecCon 2018 Review
By Allen Kent, NERC CIP Specialist, NAES Corporation I attended GridSecCon2018, the NERC E-ISAC security conference, in October 2018. Every other year E-ISAC has put on a GridEx incident response exercise including Responsible Entities and...
