Outage Planning: Did You Consider Your Air Permit? by Mary Turner – Environmental Specialist, NAES Environmental Services Your next planned outage is on the horizon, and your outage team has all the right management tools in place to make sure it comes off without a...
Let 2018 Be the Tipping Point for Your Facility’s RCA Program by Dave Righthouse – Senior Project Manager, Engineering Services As we progress through life, we inevitably encounter tipping points – those pivotal moments when circumstances conspire to alter our...
How to Check Your High-Voltage Primary Contacts: A Best Practice by Dave Righthouse – Senior Project Manager, Engineering Services Recently, a NAES-operated plant experienced a flashover in a generator breaker cubicle. It was attributed to an accumulation of ionized...
Adding Value Through Quality Improvement by Brian Beatty – Director, Engineering Services Early in my career, I was skeptical of formalized processes for quality improvement. I sided with those who argued that there’s just not enough time or people to spare for that...
by William White – NERC Reliability Specialist, NAES Corporation You’ve received the audit notice, and panic starts to set in: ‘Am I ready? What will the auditor want to review? Will they find a hole in our program?’ These concerns are all valid, but are they...
