By Sean Thompson, Supervisor NERC Services The 2021 State of Reliability – An Assessment of 2020 Bulk Power System Performance was recently released by NERC. Some key findings from the report follow. Outages due to human error and equipment failure continued to...
By Michiko Sell, Supervisor NERC CIP Services Often times we are fully dependent upon ‘implementation plans’ or ‘proposed builds’ that are provided by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) of Industrial Control Systems (ICS). If asked “do things ever go as...
By Will White, Senior NERC Reliability Compliance Specialist Who would believe leading up to April of 2015 that over 6 years later we would still be closely monitoring the implementation plan of a NERC Standard and its Requirements? PRC-005 is just that Standard. As...
By Michael Tate, NERC Reliability Compliance Specialist In 2014, the ALIGN tool was an inkling of an Idea by NERC that has blossomed into a well-run joint venture between all the Reliability Entities and NERC. Now with ALIGN as the primary area of focus for the...
By John Schmoker, Compliance Testing Services Project Manager I was recently speaking with a fellow NERC enthusiast and it was mentioned that the NERC world appears to be slowing down. “From a Generator Owner/Operator standpoint it doesn’t appear there’s much in the...
By Daniel Jenkins, NERC Reliability Compliance SpecialistHave you been requested to perform an Internal Risk Assessment (IRA) from your Regional Entity? Did you know that some facilities have been extended to a nine-year interval while others have been moved to a...
