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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...
PRC-027-1: The Standard of “Options”
By John Schmoker, Compliance Testing Services Project Manager In somewhat of a departure from tradition, NERC’s most recently adopted protection and control standard, PRC-027-1, gives entities additional flexibility for establishing compliance. As is always the...
Updated CAISO Generator Modeling Process and Data Requirements
On August 1, 2018, CAISO introduced a revised Business Practice Manual for Transmission Planning Process (BPM), which includes new data requirements for interconnected generation resources within the ISO’s footprint. Section 10 of the BPM establishes...
NERC Self-Reporting: How to Make the Best of a Bad Situation
by Daniel Jenkins – NERC Reliability Specialist, NAES Corporation From time to time, we all find ourselves in the awkward position of having to admit we made a mistake. It could be something minor, like...
FERC Electric Quarterly Reporting (EQR): You Can Expect Audits, So Be Prepared
by Mickey Bellard – Director, Power Market Compliance Services, NAES Corporation Electric Quarterly Reporting (EQR) is the online reporting platform used by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to collect contract and transactional data from...
NERC Conference Reinforces Need to Balance Compliance and Operations
by Mark Rabuano – Manager, NERC Services, NAES Corporation In late August, NAES hosted its fifth NERC Conference in Seattle. Our theme this year, ‘Sustaining Reliability: Balancing Operations and Compliance,’ was particularly salient for NAES,...
Environmental Compliance: How to Shift from Reactive to Proactive
by Pamela Berner – Director, NAES Environmental Services When an agency conducts an inspection, an owner initiates an audit or an incident attracts attention to our operations, it sets wheels in motion. A notice of...
Using Your CMMS to Track Asset Health
by Megan Matthews – Project Manager, CMMS Services, NAES Corporation Most of you have chosen to use a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) system to track your work orders, purchasing and inventory. Now that you’ve...
Combustion Tuning for State-of-the-Art Combustion Turbines
by Fred Buckingham, P.E. – Principal Consultant, Engineering Services, NAES Corporation Modern combustion turbine (CT) generators are required to meet several competing operational objectives: stringent emissions standards, high efficiency requirements, increasing operational flexibility and high...
NAES Team Scrambles to Design/Build a New Steam Host for Las Vegas Cogen
by Andrew Markle – Senior Engineering, Engineering Services, NAES Corporation In early 2016, a cogeneration plant in the Las Vegas area faced an uncertain future: its steam host had changed processes and would no longer...
