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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.

We provide entities who are generator owners and operators in North America a means to collaborate and communicate with FERC, NERC, the Regional Entities, the Canadian Provinces and other organizations with missions similar to ours, with the ultimate goal of improving the reliability of the bulk power system. 

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Said: : "Duke Energy Fossil Hydro Operations follows the 1910.269 (m & n) requirements for full fault current carrying capability temporary grounding conductors on the HV side of our step-up transformers in order to be consistent with Transmission...
Said: : "At Southern Company Generation, we have found the weakest links in the grounding application to be the clamping attachment of the TPG to the grounded equipment and the attachment of the clamp itself to the conductor. The actual size of th...
Said: : "Hi Richard, We fall somewhere between 1 and 2. If you imagine a lockout with 5 isolation points, we would not consider the total fault contribution from all 5 disconnected circuits, because it is very unlikely that all disconnected circui...
Said: : "Hey Allen, We were certainly on the fence about the whole thing. I reached out to a few different REs and gave them a hypothetical to which they (of course) responded that they would recommend self-reporting to be safe. We don't know the...
Said: : "Shannon, would you be willing to share the outcome of that self-report? I've been curious of this type of compliance risk for a couple of years, particularly for low impact requirements. It would be purely punitive to fine an Entity for s...
Said: : "Hi Gerry, I'll echo Shannon's comments and add that a report to E-ISAC is pretty quick and other utilities would certainly benefit from hearing about your incident. Regardless on where you land it might be a good opportunity to document r...
Said: : "Hi Gerry, We had a similar situation occur at one of our Canadian wind sites; however, in our case the people were able to break in and steal copper wire. We reported it under EOP as it did impact operations but not under CIP-003 becaus...
Said: : "One item of note that we've experience frequently in our studies, is the use of duplicated protective elements in the EX2100 system. This has implications for PRC 19/24 and 005. It seems to be standard for GE to enable the protective func...
Said: : "Chris, We did a front digital upgrades on two critical 140mva hydro units. We installed dual AVR/PSS with automatic transfer on a AVR/PSS fault. We also supplied the primary and secondary AVR/PSS with PT potentials from different set of ...
Said: : "Hi Chris, MOD-026 will need to be performed within 365 calendar days of the AVR digital front end replacement (see MOD-026 Attachment 1 Row 3). Bring it up to the GE commissioning engineer since they will have to do a step test and PSS t...
Said: : "Hi Chris: Since you are not in WECC, you do not have to worry about VAR-501-WECC-3.1. I would make certain when tuning the PSS you follow the guidelines for your specific region on how they want a PSS tuned and what the range of the para...
Said: : "Hi Shannon- Like a lot of folks I'm extremely happy that the compliance date was pushed back. I can certainly use the extra time to test out our new procedures before they become effective. I'm following closely the joint initiative betwe...
Said: : "I have two suggestions: Plants with thermal imaging cameras should use these devices to check if personnel are running a fever, since they are much more accurate than simplistic thermal scanners. This article (https://www.newyorker.com/m...

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