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The North American Generator Forum (NAGF) was founded in 2009 as a vehicle for generator owners and/or operators to address issues related to registration, compliance, standards development and other NERC-related topics. In 2013, the North American Generator Forum, Inc. became a non-profit, dues-based corporation.
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NERC Compliance during construction of a power plant
: "We are building several power plants and I'm interested in any NERC Compliance "lessons learned" during power plant construction. In other words, is there anything you would do differently to help ensure a smooth transition to NERC Compliance upon registration? Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Pamela Dautel"
TOP-009-1 GOP Applicability
: "Reclamation is proposing the following comment, in hopes of narrowing the standard to GOP control center personnel rather than personnel at all GOP facilities:
Reclamation appreciates the drafting team's clarification in R3 that "[e]ach Generator Operator shall ensure personnel responsible for Real-time control of a Facility have knowledge of o..."
TOP-009-1 (Project 2007-06.2) Violation Risk Factors
: "Cooper Compliance Corp. is concerned that the Violation Risk Factors proposed for TOP-009-1 cause a disproportionate penalty for smaller generators versus larger generators and recommend a change. Cooper Compliance Corp. recognizes that there are many generators that may have 5 or less operating personnel and using a percentage would cause them ..."
FW: NERC SPCS UAT
: "NAGF Members,
To clarify the request, the committee is seeking feedback on the technical aspects of the paper to ensure the they are making the correct assumptions. The paper
is posted on the NAGF Groupsite. Thanks.
-- AL
Allen D. Schriver, P.E.
General Manager Compliance
PGD Engineering and Technical Services
NextEra Ene..."
NERC SPCS UAT
: "NAGF Members,
Bill Shultz, Southern Co., has been asked to solicit opinions/comments from interested NAGF members on the attached draft of the NERC System Protection and Control
Subcommittee report entitled “Unit Auxiliary Transformer Relay Loadability During a Transmission Depressed Voltage Event”. The committee is seeking feedback befor..."
FW: Lesson Learned Control Center Comments
: "I am sending you a draft of the Trades CIP Lessons Learned control Center comments for you information and use.
FYI
E. Scott Miller
Manager Regulatory Policy | MEAG Power | 770-661-2738 (o) | 678-644-3524 (c)
From: Mitchell, Nathan [mailto:nmitchell@publicpower.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 4:20 PMTo: Miller, ScottSubj..."
NERC CIP Costs
: "We are looking to get a good estimate of NERC CIP Implementation Costs for the following scenarios:
1. CIP V3 Critical Asset implementation costs
2. Under V3 currently no CIP compliance obligations but under V5 now have medium impact BCS - estimated CIP implementation costs
3. Under V5 have medium impact BCS but plan to implement a solution t..."
PRC-026-1 Issue
: "NAGF Members,
I was contacted by a member of the PRC-026-1 Relay Performance During Normal Power Swings SDT informing me of an issue the NAGF should discuss. In the FERC NOPR to approve
the Standard, FERC is requesting comments regarding the potential burden of modifying the applicability of proposed Reliability Standard PRC-02..."
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