By Troy Dahlgren, NERC Reliability Specialist Cold weather preparations have been a hot topic for regulators around the country. Beginning in 2019, NERC began revising Standards to address cold weather preparedness, intent on avoiding unwanted outages, derates, and...
By John Schmoker, NERC Compliance Testing Specialist As we all know, electricity transitioned from luxury to necessity a long time ago. Since our daily lives are so intertwined with the supply of reliable power, grid disruptions are taken very seriously. It is for...
By Renee Davidson and Dale Tarr, NERC Reliability Specialists With most of the country having already experienced bouts of severe weather, there are several valuable take-aways from the recently published NERC 2022-2023 Winter Reliability Assessment. The assessment is...
By Renee Davidson – Moeller, Power Market Compliance Services Specialist NERC Reports Areas of Concern for the Reliability of the North American Bulk Power System (Winter 2022-2023) NERC warns of potential power Generation and Transmission capacity shortages for...
By Dale Tarr, NERC Reliability Specialist With most of the country having already experienced bouts of severe weather, there are several valuable take-aways from the recently published NERC 2022-2023 Winter Reliability Assessment. The assessment is a multi-regional...
Author: Jack Jackson In 2020, NERC’s revision 7 to CIP-003 added protection requirements to the standard for Transient Cyber Assets (TCA) and Removable Media (RM) when connecting to the Bulk Electric System Cyber System (BCS). As protection systems become smarter and...
