Van Gheem Energy Consulting helps utilities, generators, large-load developers, and registered entities turn NERC and Regional Reliability Standard obligations into practical, audit-ready programs, evidence, procedures, training, and reporting.
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Strategic Compliance Solutions
Our team specializes in the following services:
- Registration or deregistration of NERC Functional Roles based on complete application of NERC Bulk Electric System Definition.
- Managing NERC Compliance Programs through facilitation and support of client Subject Matter Experts.
- Augmenting client staff during FERC, NERC, and Regional compliance monitoring and enforcement activities, such as compliance audits, self-certifications, or self-reports.
- Analytical narrative writing for Reliability Standard Audit Worksheets (RSAWs) and other compliance documentation.
- Facilitating root cause analyses following potential non-compliance and near-miss events, including these evaluations:
- PRC-004 Analysis and Mitigation of Protection System Misoperations
- PRC-030 Unexpected Inverter-Based Resource Event Mitigation
Regulatory Reporting
Our team specializes in the comprehensive reliability reporting under Section 1600 of the NERC Rules of Procedures:
- Generating Availability Data System (GADS) for conventional, wind-powered, and solar-powered generating facilities.
- Transmission Availability Data System (TADS)
- Misoperation Information Data Analysis System (MIDAS).
CMEP Readiness
For your Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Programs, our team helps clients organize and present independent review results, internal audit work, and other assurance activities in a way that supports their broader compliance program. This includes clarifying scope, documenting reviewer qualifications and independence, aligning supporting artifacts to the issue under review, and preparing supplemental evidence as needed.
