Effectively Implementing a Sustainable NERC Compliance Program

Electric Utility companies need to manage an increasing number of compliance and audit tasks that are driven by an expanding array of regulatory requirements from NERC. The responsibility for performing these tasks are often spread across various departments within the organization. With additional standards coming into force and NERC updating existing standards, compliance requirements are shifting and audits are getting tougher. But, many organizations still work with fragmented manual processes or inadequate policies and workflows, which impacts their ability to successfully comply with NERC regulations.

In order to achieve sustainable compliance within an organization, individual workgroups must integrate compliance related tasks with existing business processes and then ensure that all tasks are performed according to regulatory requirements and deadlines. As the number of compliance tasks rapidly increases, the risk of missing these deadlines also increases.

Organizations need to enforce effective policies and procedures and implement proactive regulatory compliance programs to avoid penalties. Program managers should implement a comprehensive framework for NERC compliance oversight and program efficiency by automating the management, measurement, remediation and reporting of regulatory and policy compliance activities. One highly effective approach is to implement a software application that will accommodate unified and centralized entry, storage, monitoring, analysis and reporting of compliance activities.

Join this session and learn how to:

• Design, implement and manage effective and sustainable NERC compliance programs
• Develop corporate policies and practices for managing Reliability Assessments, RSAW preparation tasks, Audits, Reporting and Self-Certification
• Integrate Risk Assessments into Compliance and Audit Programs
• Design, implement, and assess internal controls and tasks to achieve sustainable compliance
• Integrate Issue Management practices to capture all the compliance related issues and implement mitigation plans
• Manage & Interpret NERC alerts and updates
• Migrate to new versions of the CIP Standards (e.g., V3- V4)