Events Archive

Much of NASPI’s impact is due to the ongoing volunteer work that occurs within its task teams. These teams develop and promulgate best practices while serving as incubators for new ideas and approaches to solve common problems. During quarterly task team meetings, participants will have the...

Rich Bauer is the Principal Engineer for Event Analysis for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). Joining NERC in January 2013, Rich promotes the understanding and learning from events and occurrences that are experienced on the Bulk Electric System. Rich performs forensic...

Recent BESS Oscillations: Root Cause Analysis and Wide-Area Impacts This webinar presents an opportunity to examine both root cause analysis and wide-area impacts of recent oscillation events. Monitoring and mitigation of oscillations like these are important aspects of reliable power system...

Timing is a critical element for synchronized measurement systems. Without a common clock capable of timestamping measurements within acceptable error, many synchrophasor applications cannot be utilized. While timing information from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) has historically been...

Distribution grid monitoring: Challenges in developing PMU-rich feeders Increasing visibility into distribution grids requires upgrades to monitoring infrastructure. Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has only been minimally insightful in security and resilience cases, while the proliferation of...

Presenter s: Matthew Rhodes (SRP), Jared Bestebreur (SEL), and Neeraj Nayak (EPG) Following widespread deployment of PMU technology, the NASPI community recognized that synchrophasors can be a valuable tool for monitoring equipment health. A 2015 report ( https://www.naspi.org/node/365 ) documented...

Bob Cummings is president of Red Yucca Power Consulting. Prior to founding his consulting firm, Bob retired from NERC as the Senior Director of Engineering and Reliability Initiatives in 2020. During his 23 years at NERC, Bob was involved in the analysis of 18 major system disturbances. He was a...

Title: Securely Storing Archival synchrophasor Data in the Cloud: Access Control and Usage for CIP NERC Compliant Government Data on AWS. Speakers: Alex Curley and Alia Wilkinson Abstract: Reporting, analysis, and storage of synchrophasor data presents new challenges due to the volume of data...

Presenter, Brad Rossiter - Leveraging Risk Information to Protect Critical Operation & Assets Bradley is an OT/IT security and risk management advisor with over 30 years of experience; his mission at Quanta is to help organizations safely, securely, and resiliently modernize their most critical of...

Bio Matthew Rhodes is a Principal Engineer in Grid Operations Support at Salt River Project (SRP) in Phoenix, Arizona. He has worked in System Protection at SRP for 13 years improving SRPs synchrophasor network and in SRPs Transmission and Generation Operations group enabling successful...