by NAES Admin | Feb 23, 2021 | News
by Pamela Berner, Director of Environmental Services On January 20, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 13990, “Protecting Public Health and The Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis”. This order established initiatives for executive...
by NAES Admin | Feb 23, 2021 | News
by Rob McCranie, NAES Project Manager These are exciting times at NAES as we move forward in improving the execution of how NAES performs Plant Assessments. Last year NAES formed a working group with the goal of finding a better way to execute Plant Assessments at...
by NAES Admin | Jan 15, 2021 | News
By Leland McMillan, NERC Services Supervisor NAES’s WECC-Lead, Leland McMillan (Supervisor, NERC Services), recently attended via webinar the WECC Reliability & Security Workshop meeting held on October 27-28. NAES NERC Services has summarized the...
by NAES Admin | Jan 14, 2021 | News
The following appeared in the December 2020 issue of NERC News, the NERC newsletter. By William Boulware, NERC Reliability Specialist ATLANTA – The 2020 Long-Term Reliability Assessment finds sufficient resource adequacy across most of North America and highlights...
by NAES Admin | Jan 14, 2021 | News
By Joseph Bennett, NERC Senior Reliability Specialist A geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) is also referred to as a geomagnetic storm. A geomagnetic storm is defined as a major disturbance of Earth’s magnetosphere that occurs when there is a very efficient exchange...
by NAES Admin | Jan 14, 2021 | News
By Leland McMillan, NERC Services Supervisor Remember the days of audits every 6 years? Oh wait, did you think they were still doing that? In the past, the regions held to a fairly strict schedule of conducting audits on a periodic basis, which included 3-year, or...
