Technical Talk with RF

ReliabilityFirst (RF) offers a regularly scheduled monthly call to provide entities and stakeholders with a forum for addressing topics and questions relevant to reliability, resilience and security.   

While RF Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) will provide presentations and updates, they will not address entity-specific questions and issues. These types of questions can be handled offline by using the RF Assist Visit program. If you have any questions, please reach out to Mike Hughes, Entity Engagement Manager, 216-503-0617.  

Agenda 

Non-in-kind generation equipment replacements 

Yuriy Grytsulyak, Senior Lead Engineer, Generator Modeling & Dynamic Studies, PJM Interconnection 

Yuriy Grytsulyak will highlight tariff and configuration management issues and discuss how an integrated approach that aligns both NERC and PJM tariff requirements can help support a robust configuration management and control framework and improve grid reliability. 

Generation and Storage Facility screening process for reliability, security, and compliance impacts 

Toney Ross, ENS NERC Supervisor, DTE 

Toney Ross will share DTE’s NERC change checklist, which aids in maintaining compliance through changes by screening power plant changes for reliability, security, and compliance impacts. Toney will share their journey leading up to the creation of this checklist tool, providing lessons learned and insights, and show specific examples from the checklist and how it is maintained.   

Assessing compliance implications associated with generator uprates 

Mike Hattery, Senior Counsel, Enforcement, ReliabilityFirst 

Mike Hattery will discuss the compliance considerations entities should assess in preparation for completion of a generator uprate or modification.