Pre/Post Outage Thermal Performance Evaluation

Pre/Post Outage Thermal Performance Evaluation

Pre/Post Outage Thermal Performance Evaluation by Sanjeev Jolly, P.E. – Senior Engineer, Engineering Services NAES has developed pre/post outage thermal performance guidelines to assist plants in quantifying changes in combustion turbine (CT) performance because of...
Maximo Barcoding: Where Has it Been All Our Lives?

Maximo Barcoding: Where Has it Been All Our Lives?

by Megan Matthews, Project Engineer, CMMS Services at NAES Corporation Every plant staff I visit has a list of improvements they want to see in their CMMS system. For most of them, barcode scanning for inventory ranks in their top five. The promises of barcode...
The Dissolution of FRCC

The Dissolution of FRCC

By Daniel Jenkins, NERC Reliability Specialist As you know, on October 30, 2018, the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council, Inc. (FRCC), Board of Directors approved a timeline and plan to terminate its Amended and Restated Delegation Agreement with the North...
Anti-Market Manipulation Training

Anti-Market Manipulation Training

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...
NERC CIP Lecture at Western Washington University

NERC CIP Lecture at Western Washington University

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...