by Dave Righthouse – Senior Project Manager, Plant Operations Whew! Your facility has had an incident. You’ve been diligent about conducting a thorough Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigation: you’ve assembled a competent and engaged RCA team, gathered...
ISSAQUAH, WA, July 24, 2018 — NAES Corporation has received 18 Best Practice Awards and three of eight coveted ‘Best of the Best’ Awards from the editors of Combined Cycle Journal (CCJ) in the magazine’s 2018 competition....
By Allen Kent, NERC CIP Specialist, NAES Corporation Fear is a strong motivator for most people – which is why it gets used a lot in security presentations. “The sky is falling!” cried Chicken Little. Sometimes the sky really is falling, and sometimes there is...
By John Schmoker – NERC Compliance Testing Specialist, NAES Corporation The Bulk Electric System’s (BES’s) ability to maintain frequency within predefined limits is essential to its overall stability. Inertial resistance (spinning mass), primary frequency...
By Duncan Brown – Director, Corporate Development, NAES Corporation The Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) describes its mission as ‘To effectively and efficiently reduce risks to the reliability and security of the Western Interconnection’s Bulk...
