Helping utilities make the most of their existing transmission and distribution infrastructure By Donna Rennemo, President & CEO, WindSim Americas Inc. As utilities consider the replacement of aging infrastructure and incorporating renewables from remote...
By Allen Kent, NERC CIP Specialist, NAES Corporation I attended GridSecCon2018, the NERC E-ISAC security conference, in October 2018. Every other year E-ISAC has put on a GridEx incident response exercise including Responsible Entities and government agencies...
By John Schmoker, Compliance Testing Services Project Manager In somewhat of a departure from tradition, NERC’s most recently adopted protection and control standard, PRC-027-1, gives entities additional flexibility for establishing compliance. As is always the case...
On August 1, 2018, CAISO introduced a revised Business Practice Manual for Transmission Planning Process (BPM), which includes new data requirements for interconnected generation resources within the ISO’s footprint. Section 10 of the BPM establishes revised data...
by Daniel Jenkins – NERC Reliability Specialist, NAES Corporation From time to time, we all find ourselves in the awkward position of having to admit we made a mistake. It could be something minor, like forgetting your key card to get into work...
by Mickey Bellard – Director, Power Market Compliance Services, NAES Corporation Electric Quarterly Reporting (EQR) is the online reporting platform used by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to collect contract and transactional data from public...