The corporation is the industry body authorized by the federal government to enforce reliability rules for the interlocking system of electrical power generation and transmission.
"We've been trying for the last couple of years to have some help from Congress to allow us to enforce reliability rules," Mr. Gent said on ABC's "This Week".
Certainly, creating and enforcing mandatory reliability standards binding on all market participants is central to this effort, as you point out in "Lessons From a Blackout" (editorial, April 12).
Buried deep inside the bills is a provision that would give a little-known organization known as the North American Electric Reliability Council the power to write and enforce mandatory reliability standards.
One of the most useful provisions in an otherwise deeply flawed energy bill now before Congress would give the federal government power to safeguard electrical transmission by writing and enforcing mandatory reliability standards for companies.
Michehl R. Gent, a former president of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, the entity designated by the federal government to write and enforce grid reliability rules, called the Delaware idea "tiny but promising".
NERC will now be responsible for developing and enforcing mandatory reliability standards, and can impose fines on utilities that fail to come up to scratch.How effective this will be, only time will tell.
RBDs are used to estimate and enforce system reliability.
The offshore industry has to get ahead of the curve on developing, implementing, enforcing improvements in offshore operational reliability and safety.
However, difficulties in the modeling of product's failure process and assessing corrective and preventive maintenance actions' effects on the reliability of product enforce the service providers to propose limited EW contracts with simple "minimal repair at failures" servicing strategy.
