2019 NYC Power Outage By Joseph Bennett, Senior NERC Reliability Specialist On July 13, 2019, approximately 70,000 to 73,000 people lost power in a 30-block area of Midtown Manhattan and Manhattan’s west side. A tourist-filled Times Square and Broadway were shut down...
By Michiko Sell, Sr NERC CIP Specialist October is National Cyber Security Awareness month. This year’s overarching message – Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT. – will focus on key areas including citizen privacy, consumer devices, and e-commerce security. The following...
By Leland McMillan, Supervisor, NERC Services January 1, 2020 is almost here and the highly anticipated pressure to complete the CIP-003-7 cyber security plans will be over. Or will it? Background: Since 2017, registered entities have been deploying plans as required...
There is a very famous saying “all fingers are different”. The meaning applies to power generation plants as well, there are no power stations that are the same neither in infrastructure nor in their environment, however, there are things in common and...
Mexico, despite being one of the largest economies in Latin America, does not stand out for its great sporting achievements, development, or educational system. Instead, Mexico does stand out for negative issues such as violence and corruption. We are even better...
NAES-MEXICO operates and maintains the Tuxpan II and V combined cycle power plants, which generate 990 MW of electricity with CFE (Electricity Federal Commission) as a client; currently both plants have a comprehensive management system based on ISO 9001: 2015, 14001:...
