by Rob McCranie, NAES Project Manager These are exciting times at NAES as we move forward in improving the execution of how NAES performs Plant Assessments. Last year NAES formed a working group with the goal of finding a better way to execute Plant Assessments at...
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...
