By William White, NERC Reliability Specialist So here we go again; compliance, standards, and requirements. Many of your plant employees may be asking, “why are we doing this?” and “does it really matter?” At some point, most compliance management employees have heard...
By Jack Jackson, Sr NERC Reliability Specialist Over the past several years, NERC has been working with the regions to centralize several processes through the NERC ERO Portal. Most familiar to Generator Operators would be MIDAS, used for the submittal of relay...
By Michael Tate, NERC Reliability Specialist VAR-002, a standard with roots back to the 2003 blackout, is a trending audit item for Generator Operators. Some generators are constrained by a narrow voltage schedule issued by their Transmission Operator and do not...
by Hugo Ordoñez Ruiz and Henry Barrios García – Plant Manager and Plant Engineer, Nuevo Pemex Cogeneration Facility The Challenge The Nuevo Pemex cogeneration facility, located in the State of Tabasco, Mexico, is equipped with two GEMS7001FA combustion turbines, each...
by Hugo Ordoñez Ruiz, Henry Barrios García and Ernesto Hernández Peña – Nuevo Pemex, Tabasco, Mexico The Challenge We wanted to find a way to reliably perform battery discharge-testing as stipulated by the IEEE as wellas NERC standard PRC-005-02 at the recommended...
Backwashing the Closed Cycle Heat Exchangerby Jorge Esparza – Plant Manager, Leonel Rosas – Production Director,and Erasmo Casados – Operations Manager, Tuxpan II & V, Veracruz, Mexico The ChallengeIn the MHI´s operating procedures of the plant, they provide to...
