Electric Ops Consultants

The Work

The legacy Areas Of Practice, split the way a control center actually runs: the desk, and the audit.

Control Centers

EMS, SCADA, switching, outage tools, and the people who sit the desk. We have performed the tasks.

Energy Management Systems. EMS configuration, SCADA, and control-facility assessments.
iTOA. v1 to v2 before the 2030 sunset, vendor moves, or in-place upgrades. Point, smoke, and performance tests so operators are ready at cutover.
Software Systems Integration. Paperless conversions, auditable system of record, high availability, electronic field switching, FERC SOC-minded notification automation, 24/7 support.
Switch-Order Writing And Reviews. Written from your one-lines. Safety, reliability, completeness.
Operations Engineering. TADS / GADS / NATF, near-term reliability studies, interconnection studies, procedural development.
Data Standardization And Visualization. Equipment, lines, substations, ratings, as-builts. Power BI dashboards and KPIs built on fact.
Organizational Change. Business case through go-live. Meet the team where they are. Stakeholders ready before cutover.
Short And Long Term Staffing. NERC System Operators to cover the desk.

Compliance

O&P and CIP. Mock audits, RSAWs, findings, and the technical work behind the evidence. Staffed by people who have been the operator and the auditor.

Mock Audits And Prep. Practice runs as outsiders for NERC Regional Entity and RTO/ISO work. Prep new SMEs. Challenge the veterans.
RSAWs. Find the evidence of compliance. Become or remain compliant.
Findings And Self-Reporting. Investigate, decide whether to self-report, and write the corrective-action plan with milestones.
CIP Technical Assessments. Vulnerability testing and CIP technical work, sold separately from physical security.
CIP-014 And Physical Security. Critical infrastructure protection, emergency management, and physical-security posture.
Procedures And Training. Gap the procedures, rewrite them, and get ILAs approved for NERC CEHs. Sessions that fit shift work.
O&P Program Support. Operations and Planning standards, audit prep, and enterprise compliance strategy.
Staffing For Compliance Work. Named SMEs, not an anonymous bench learning NERC on your time.

One Month Or Less

We do not learn the standards on your clock. We learn how this utility performs the required work and which roles are responsible for those tasks.

We Have Done The Work

Transmission operations, control-center software, CIP audits, and enterprise NERC programs. The functions are not new to this team.

We Learn Your Utility

How you write a switch. Who signs the RSAW. Who talks to the Regional Entity. Where evidence lives. Which desk owns which requirement.

Then We Perform

Productive in one month or less when access, badges, and document libraries are granted. If access slips, the clock slips with it.

The Team

Everyone listed on the current Team SESC page, plus the CIP and cyber specialists who work with them. The full Team SESC roster, with CIP and cyber specialists.