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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...
How to Check Your High-Voltage Primary Contacts
How to Check Your High-Voltage Primary Contacts: A Best Practice by Dave Righthouse – Senior Project Manager, Engineering Services Recently, a NAES-operated plant experienced a flashover in a generator breaker cubicle. It was attributed to...
Adding Value Through Quality Improvement
Adding Value Through Quality Improvement by Brian Beatty – Director, Engineering Services Early in my career, I was skeptical of formalized processes for quality improvement. I sided with those who argued that there’s just not...
NERC Audits: From an Auditor’s Perspective
by William White – NERC Reliability Specialist, NAES Corporation You’ve received the audit notice, and panic starts to set in: ‘Am I ready? What will the auditor want to review? Will they find a hole...
Gridforce Adds a New Dimension of Reliability to NAES NERC Services
by C. J. Ingersoll – President, Gridforce Energy Management LLC We were excited to join the NAES family of companies in July of this year. From our headquarters in Houston, we help power generators and...
What is a Geomagnetic Disturbance and How Can It Affect the Power Grid?
by Joe Bennett – Senior NERC Reliability Specialist, NAES Corporation A geomagnetic disturbance (GMD), also known as a geomagnetic storm, is a major event in Earth’s magnetosphere. It’s caused by a very efficient transfer of...
Don’t Neglect Your Protection Systems
Don’t Neglect Your Protection Systems by Gregg Massar – Performance Engineer, Engineering & Technical Services Protective relays and their associated components play a critical role in a power-generation facility. We all understand their basic purpose,...
How Good is Your High-Energy Piping Program?
How Good is Your High-Energy Piping Program?by Brian Beatty – Director, Engineering Services, NAES Corporation As custodians of our clients’ power plants, it’s essential that we operate and maintain them safely and in accordance...
NAES NERC Audit Lessons Learned Webinar
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CIP Compliance vs. True Security
NERC CIP Cyber Security Standards CIP Compliance vs. True Security:Be Sure You Address Bothby Michiko Sell – Senior NERC CIP Specialist Responsible entities too often believe that if they comply with NERC CIP Standards,...
