NAGF Activity Summary

NAGF Activity Summary

Wayne Sipperly Jr., Executive Coordinator, North American Generator Forum NAES is a member of the North American Generator Forum (NAGF) which provides a network of generation industry compliance, operations, equipment technical experts whose collective knowledge and...
E-ISAC Bulletin: Cyber Security

E-ISAC Bulletin: Cyber Security

Leland McMillan, Supervisor, NERC Services NAES participates in and tracks various industry initiatives and organizations to stay abreast of pertinent issues.  The Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC), in collaboration with the Department...
Managing Change and Maintaining Compliance

Managing Change and Maintaining Compliance

Sean Thompson, Supervisor, NERC Services Throughout the life of a power plant, many changes will affect all phases of operations and maintenance. Due to the sophistication of most power plants, it is critical to ensure that all operations and maintenance activities...
Western Reliability Coordinator Transition Update

Western Reliability Coordinator Transition Update

Shaun Rohret, NERC Reliability Specialist, NERC Services The End of 2019 has brought some big changes to Reliability Coordination in the Western Interconnection. Per the July 18, 2018 notification, Peak Reliability, the Reliability Coordinator (RC) for most of the...
Be Secure, Not Just Compliant

Be Secure, Not Just Compliant

How to increase security by adding simple High/Medium Requirements to your Low-Impact program. Going beyond “let’s do what’s required to be compliant,” to a mindset of how do we protect ourselves and the BES at all times, it would be a great idea to consider some of...