A Compliance Manager’s Guide to Shaping Compliance Culture

A Compliance Manager’s Guide to Shaping Compliance Culture

By William White, NERC Reliability Specialist So here we go again; compliance, standards, and requirements. Many of your plant employees may be asking, “why are we doing this?” and “does it really matter?” At some point, most compliance management employees have heard...
CORES, Align and the Expansion of the ERO Portal

CORES, Align and the Expansion of the ERO Portal

By Jack Jackson, Sr NERC Reliability Specialist Over the past several years, NERC has been working with the regions to centralize several processes through the NERC ERO Portal. Most familiar to Generator Operators would be MIDAS, used for the submittal of relay...
NERC Spy: Insider’s Guide to VAR-002 for Generators

NERC Spy: Insider’s Guide to VAR-002 for Generators

By Michael Tate, NERC Reliability Specialist VAR-002, a standard with roots back to the 2003 blackout, is a trending audit item for Generator Operators. Some generators are constrained by a narrow voltage schedule issued by their Transmission Operator and do not...
Mobile Backup Battery Bank Streamlines Discharge-Testing

Mobile Backup Battery Bank Streamlines Discharge-Testing

by Hugo Ordoñez Ruiz, Henry Barrios García and Ernesto Hernández Peña – Nuevo Pemex, Tabasco, Mexico The Challenge We wanted to find a way to reliably perform battery discharge-testing as stipulated by the IEEE as wellas NERC standard PRC-005-02 at the recommended...