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By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — Registered entities asked FERC on Thursday to clear the way for their use of cloud computing, which they said could improve system visibility, security and availability while saving money. Speaking at FERC’s annual reliability technical conference, representatives of the American Public Power Association, MISO,...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — NERC CEO Jim Robb blinked in seeming disbelief when he walked into a press conference at his organization’s offices here Wednesday and was confronted by 10 reporters — more than twice as many as had shown up when he had his first press briefing...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. Consolidated Edison’s Anthony Natale has summarized what he’s learned about substation fires over two decades in several bullet points. But the biggest lesson, he says, is one of humility. "These are low-frequency, high-hazard events. We don’t do them often enough to get good at them," he...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. NERC is investigating Chinese ties to the vendor it selected for a high-profile software project, the Western Electricity Coordinating Council learned Tuesday. NERC selected BWISE Information Security to develop its Align project in February 2018, when the company was owned by NASDAQ. NERC signed an ERO...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. ORLANDO, Fla. — NERC is likely to merge its Planning, Operating and Critical Infrastructure Protection committees into a single "Reliability Council," committee members learned last week. NERC announced in May that a Stakeholder Engagement Team (SET) was reviewing the ERO’s structure after 10 years of operations.
By Rich Heidorn Jr. ORLANDO, Fla. — Tim Fritch, vice chair of NERC’s Synchronized Measurements Subcommittee, said June 4 that his panel’s research into the Jan. 11 Eastern Interconnection oscillation event has identified the need to improve data sharing and provide guidance for responding to such events. Tim Fritch, vice...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. ORLANDO, Fla. — NERC’s task force on electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) will hold its first face-to-face meeting at the ERO’s offices in D.C. on June 12, but if you’re not already signed up, it’s too late to attend in person. Director of Engineering and Standards Howard Gugel...
ORLANDO, Fla. — NERC’s Planning Committee acted on three reliability guidelines during meetings June 4-5, prompting SPP’s Shannon Mickens to ask how standards enforcement officials will treat entities that do not choose to follow them. NERC's June 4-5 Planning Committee meeting included discussions on the import of reliability guidance documents...
ORLANDO, Fla. — The NERC Operating Committee approved the following in meetings Tuesday and Wednesday: The Resources Subcommittee’s revised reliability guideline on primary frequency control under BAL-001-TRE-1 and PRC-001-WECC-CRT-2. Originally published in 2015, the guideline’s definitions were updated and the section on recovery periods was expanded. Applicable to: balancing authorities,...
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