Transmission and Generation Owners and Distribution Providers trust PSI’s 20+ years of NERC program development and implementation experience – in the field, in the audit, and in the details.
Services
Compliance Program Development & Implementation
We assist clients in the development and implementation of sustainable, robust compliance programs by integrating compliance and business functions.
Compliance Procedure, Policy, & Training
Our experienced team helps define business processes and compliance procedures that provide operations and compliance personnel with the tools and training needed to comply with reliability standards.
Internal Risk Assessment
Our staff assists in identifying and prioritizing an organization’s risk factors to the Bulk Electric System (BES) and tailors a risk-based compliance monitoring program that focuses on reliability standards identified as risk elements by NERC and the Regions.
Internal Controls Development and Testing
We proactively identify potential non-compliance with reliability standards and help develop & test corrective actions that can mitigate compliance risk.
NERC Managed Services
Our experienced compliance managers assume compliance responsibilities utilizing proven industry methodologies to provide organizations with an efficient and cost-effective approach to a proactive compliance program, freeing organization personnel to focus on business functions.
Reliability Standard Audit Worksheet (RSAW) Development and Review
We help to create and utilize Reliability Standard Audit Worksheets (RSAWs) for internal organization assessments & as preparation for spot checks and audits from NERC Regional Entity auditors.
Gap Analysis and Mock Audit, Self-Certification, Spot Check
Our highly qualified personnel perform gap analyses and mock audits to assess an organization’s state of compliance and provide recommendations on the findings, cost-effectively preparing organization personnel for a NERC Regional audit.
Violation and Mitigation Support
We review potential violations and work with the organization to develop defensible positions, creating & implementing sound mitigation plans that are often considered compliance exceptions or qualify for the Find, Fix and Track (FFT) program.
Cyber Security
We provide risk-based assessments of an organization’s cyber security standards and help design and implement programs to achieve, monitor, and document compliance with the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards.
Introducing ProtX, an inventory, tracking, notification and maintenance SaaS solution for full PRC-related protection system
compliance.
Unlike other NERC compliance solutions, ProtX was designed and built by compliance experts with more than
20 years of NERC program, field and audit experience.
