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How To Stay Off the NERC Hot Seat

How To Stay Off the NERC Hot Seat

Internal Controls: Or, How toStay Off the NERC Hot Seatby Leland McMillan – NERC Reliability Specialist  In accordance with NERC’s FERC-approved Reliability Assurance Initiative (RAI), regional entities are focusing more on ensuring compliance and reliability...
Failed Tubing and Clamping Assemblies Can Lead to Outages

Failed Tubing and Clamping Assemblies Can Lead to Outages

Failed Tubing and Clamping Assemblies Can Lead to Forced Outages…or Worse by Dave Righthouse – Senior Project Engineer, Plant Operations A recent spate of tubing clamp and grommet failures have made the industry news. While they don’t sound very menacing, they...
Successful O&M Assessment in a Developing Country: Part 2

Successful O&M Assessment in a Developing Country: Part 2

How to Complete a Successful O&M Assessment in a Developing Country: Part 2 by Andrew Markle, PE and Sanjeev Jolly, PE – Senior Engineers, NAES Engineering Services Part 1 of this article, which appeared in the last issue of Technically Speaking, describes the...
CMMS Failure Codes

CMMS Failure Codes

CMMS Failure Codes: Two Schools of Thought by Megan Matthews – Project Engineer, CMMS Services One of the most common questions we get from plants, both new and well-established ones, is how to set up failure codes – or why to set them up, or how to use the...
Inlet Air Cooling Improves Gas Turbine Performance

Inlet Air Cooling Improves Gas Turbine Performance

Inlet Air Cooling Improves Gas Turbine Performance by Sanjeev Jolly, PE – Senior Engineer, Engineering Services An inlet air cooling (IAC) system offers one of the most cost-effective ways to improve gas turbine (GT) performance – especially during the peak hours of...
The Emergence of Risk-Based Compliance Monitoring

The Emergence of Risk-Based Compliance Monitoring

The Emergence of Risk-BasedCompliance Monitoringby Daniel Jenkins – NERC Reliability Specialist  The Realization NERC has in recent years adopted a risk-based Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Program (CMEP), motivated by the realization that its enforcement...