by NAES Admin | Jan 19, 2022 | News
By Troy Dahlgren, NERC Reliability Specialist On May 9th, 2021, a small, ordinary line-to-ground fault at a combined-cycle facility near Odessa, TX exposed a major reduction in active power production from solar plants throughout the region. NERC considers this a...
by NAES Admin | Jan 18, 2022 | News
By John Branch, NERC Power Market Compliance Services Specialist Over the past decade natural gas has been crowned king in the energy industry. However, renewable energy has made great leaps and bounds to solidify a position in the energy space. With the constant...
by NAES Admin | Oct 11, 2021 | News
By Richard Schlottmann, NERC Senior Reliability Compliance Specialist The Joint NERC and Texas RE Staff Report regarding the Texas events of May 9 and June 26 evaluates the first disturbance involving a widespread reduction of solar photovoltaic (PV) resource power...
by NAES Admin | Oct 11, 2021 | News
By Sean Thompson, Supervisor NERC Services The 2021 State of Reliability – An Assessment of 2020 Bulk Power System Performance was recently released by NERC. Some key findings from the report follow. Outages due to human error and equipment failure continued to...
by NAES Admin | Oct 11, 2021 | News
By Michiko Sell, Supervisor NERC CIP Services Often times we are fully dependent upon ‘implementation plans’ or ‘proposed builds’ that are provided by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) of Industrial Control Systems (ICS). If asked “do things ever go as...
