By Mark Henry, Director of Reliability Services & Registration, Texas RE Power plant operators in the southern United States can generally expect mild winters but occasionally face deep, prolonged cold and icy precipitation. Winter storm Uri in February 2021 was a...
Author: Leland McMillan, NERC Supervisor The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has issued new training and onboarding tools aimed to assist industry participants ensure that their personnel are up to date with software applications and...
Contact: Torin RoherCorporate Communications Specialist425-270-6237 ISSAQUAH, Wash. (Oct. 11, 2022) – Seeking to bolster its capabilities to meet the North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) physical security...
By Miguel Bojorquez, NERC Reliability Specialist In recent years the bulk power system has seen the generation mix significantly transform. Inverter-based resources such as wind, solar, PV, battery energy storage systems, and hybrid plants have seen a substantial...
by Leland McMillan, NERC Services Supervisor The rapid interconnection of Bulk Power System (BPS)-connected inverter-based resources is one of the most significant drivers of grid transformation and poses a high risk to BPS reliability. NERC has developed an...
By Rob O’Connell, NERC Reliability Specialist NERC is launching a new product called Reliability Vignettes, which are intended to capture current operating incidents of interest and project the circumstances of the incidents into the future as think pieces for system...
