by NAES Admin | Apr 18, 2019 | News
By Mike Moyer, PMCS Specialist The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has been actively enforcing the new laws and regulations authorized by Congress in the 2005 amendments to the Federal Power Act (FPA). One of the key areas of FERC’s enforcement...
by NAES Admin | Mar 25, 2019 | News
On March 6th, Allen Kent presented a 75 minute overview of the Bulk Electric System, NERC history, and NERC CIP Compliance requirements to Western Washington University students in the Computer Science programs. There were about 27 students & faculty in...
by NAES Admin | Jan 14, 2019 | News
Helping utilities make the most of their existing transmission and distribution infrastructure By Donna Rennemo, President & CEO, WindSim Americas Inc. As utilities consider the replacement of aging infrastructure and incorporating renewables from remote...
by NAES Admin | Jan 14, 2019 | News
By Allen Kent, NERC CIP Specialist, NAES Corporation I attended GridSecCon2018, the NERC E-ISAC security conference, in October 2018. Every other year E-ISAC has put on a GridEx incident response exercise including Responsible Entities and government agencies...
by NAES Admin | Jan 14, 2019 | News
By John Schmoker, Compliance Testing Services Project Manager In somewhat of a departure from tradition, NERC’s most recently adopted protection and control standard, PRC-027-1, gives entities additional flexibility for establishing compliance. As is always the case...