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...
by NAES Admin | Oct 11, 2021 | News
By Will White, Senior NERC Reliability Compliance Specialist Who would believe leading up to April of 2015 that over 6 years later we would still be closely monitoring the implementation plan of a NERC Standard and its Requirements? PRC-005 is just that Standard. As...
by NAES Admin | Oct 11, 2021 | News
By Michael Tate, NERC Reliability Compliance Specialist In 2014, the ALIGN tool was an inkling of an Idea by NERC that has blossomed into a well-run joint venture between all the Reliability Entities and NERC. Now with ALIGN as the primary area of focus for the...
