By Leland McMillan, NERC Services Supervisor NAES’s WECC-Lead, Leland McMillan (Supervisor, NERC Services), recently attended via webinar the WECC Reliability & Security Workshop meeting held on October 27-28. NAES NERC Services has summarized the...
The following appeared in the December 2020 issue of NERC News, the NERC newsletter. By William Boulware, NERC Reliability Specialist ATLANTA – The 2020 Long-Term Reliability Assessment finds sufficient resource adequacy across most of North America and highlights...
By Joseph Bennett, NERC Senior Reliability Specialist A geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) is also referred to as a geomagnetic storm. A geomagnetic storm is defined as a major disturbance of Earth’s magnetosphere that occurs when there is a very efficient exchange...
By Leland McMillan, NERC Services Supervisor Remember the days of audits every 6 years? Oh wait, did you think they were still doing that? In the past, the regions held to a fairly strict schedule of conducting audits on a periodic basis, which included 3-year, or...
NERC CIP is a Cyber Security Framework which contain a set of requirements designed to secure the critical assets required for operating the North American Bulk Electric System, to what extent is up to the Plant. According to a new report from the US Department...
By Jack Jackson, NERC Senior Reliability Specialist While the big season of implementation and phased implementation plans is past the idea of the implementation plan is here to stay. And while there aren’t as many active implementation plans as there were...
