: "NAGF members,
We had a friendly visit from SERC yesterday at one of my plants. It was a planned meeting, well in advance. They brought 2 events analysis people and we had a very collegial discussion for about 2 hours. They reviewed the checklist (at the link below) with us, shared some winterization best practices, and were very inquisitive rega..."

: "We are currently upgrading one of our smaller combined cycle generators from its original electromechanical generator protection package to a new microprocessor based package. In so doing, we were attempting to get ahead of PRC-025-1 - even though we have until 2019, we don't want to have to change the backup stator overcurrent protection setti..."

: "At the Annual Meeting, it was mentioned that the VRF Matrix enabled a user to filter to only the Standards and Requirements that apply to a specific Functional Entity (GO, GOP, TO, etc). There are probably multiple ways to get to this document on NERC's website but one is under Programs Areas & Departments - Standards. On the left hand menu, s..."

: "Does anyone know how to get personnel at a plant in Ontario registered to receive NERC alerts? The plants in Ontario do not have NCR numbers, but rather market participant numbers, with IESO being the sole NCR in the province. Thanks!"

: "This morning I found out that NERC kicked off comment periods for two draft reliability guidelines earlier this week. It appears that the announcement did not go to the same email group that the typical "all industry" announcements have gone to in the past. I have attached the pdf's in case anyone is intersted in commenting.

Draft Reliabili..."

: "Recently, FERC issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to seek comments on possible modifications to the NERC CIP Standards Reliability Standards. One of the areas in which FERC sought comments was regarding "application whitelisting" for cyber systems located at Control Centers. To assist in the development of comments back to FERC, we would like to..."

: "I'd like to know what other entities are doing with regards to CIP-002-5.1 and VOIP phones. If those phones (in your control room) are your primary means of communicating with TOPs and dispatchers, are you classifying the phone systems as BCAs/BCSs? I've heard that the regions might not be fully coordinated in their audit approach to this as of ..."