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...
by Mark Rabuano – Manager, NERC Services, NAES Corporation In late August, NAES hosted its fifth NERC Conference in Seattle. Our theme this year, ‘Sustaining Reliability: Balancing Operations and Compliance,’ was particularly salient for NAES, given its role as...
by Pamela Berner – Director, NAES Environmental Services When an agency conducts an inspection, an owner initiates an audit or an incident attracts attention to our operations, it sets wheels in motion. A notice of noncompliance or other negative action drives a...
by Megan Matthews – Project Manager, CMMS Services, NAES Corporation Most of you have chosen to use a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) system to track your work orders, purchasing and inventory. Now that you’ve invested time and money in your...
by Fred Buckingham, P.E. – Principal Consultant, Engineering Services, NAES Corporation Modern combustion turbine (CT) generators are required to meet several competing operational objectives: stringent emissions standards, high efficiency requirements,...
by Andrew Markle – Senior Engineering, Engineering Services, NAES Corporation In early 2016, a cogeneration plant in the Las Vegas area faced an uncertain future: its steam host had changed processes and would no longer require steam, putting the facility in...