Services

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 Audit Readiness /Preparation Services

• QA/QC Document Reviews – Operational policies, procedures, and guidelines; Reliability Standard Application Worksheets (RSAW), etc.
• Mock Audit / Witness Preparation Support Services

Daily and Ongoing NERC Compliance Support

• Develop and Deploy Internal Controls (Preventative, Detective, and Directive)
• Time-Based, Performance-Based, and Request-Based Internal Controls
• NERC Compliance Scoping Survey for BES projects
• NERC Compliance Checklist - Transmission Development and Renewable Energy Projects
• NERC Benchmarking
• NERC Compliance Performance Metrics and Dashboarding

Interconnection Data Integrity

• BAL-005, PRC-027, Transmission Settlements, Load Forecasting, etc.

Validation of Power Model Parameters for PSS/E and EMS Models

• TOP-001, TOP-002, TOP-010, TPL-001, etc.
• System Operating Limits/Interconnection Reliability Operating Limits, and transmission impedances

Facility Ratings / FAC-008

• Asset Management Database reconciliation across multiple data sets (PSS/E or PSLF power flow ratings // EMS System Operating Limits portfolio)

FERC Order 881 Regulatory Support

• Leveraging FAC-008 (Facility Ratings) efforts to confirm EMS System Operating Limits portfolio used for Ambient Adjusted Ratings (AAR)

 Data Warehouse Supporting Services 

• Supporting your team through the implementation of analytical algorithms 
• Creating reporting templates for NERC Compliance, Renewable Integration, and Operational purposes
• Near Real-time Compliance Assessment Tool (NCAT)
  • Improving your overall NERC compliance situational awareness
  • Mitigating compliance risk and avoiding unforced errors 

Automation Services 

• Developing functional specifications for your Python and R software programming teams
• Laying out the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) steps for your team to automate highly manual procedures

FERC Order 1000 Development                   Support Services 

• Working with my clients to evaluate the annual RTO transmission expansion plan studies to determine ideal transmission projects to develop 
• Upon request, responding to transmission RFPs from the various RTOs when a qualified transmission need has been identified to be competitively bided 
• Reviewing transmission plans, substation configurations, and evaluating the NERC compliance/Operational Commissioning checklists for accuracy and completeness

Interconnection Agreement Support Services 

• Working with my clients to walk through the Large Generator Interconnection Procedures (LGIP) and Small Generator Interconnection Procedures (SGIP) based upon the overall capacity (in MW) of their project
• Completion of Large Generator Interconnection Agreement (LGIA) and Small Generator Interconnection Agreement (SGIA) applications 
• Working with the client to identify ideal locations to develop new renewable energy projects on the bulk electric system (BES)