ICF Energy NERC Compliance

NERC Compliance

ICF International is the industry leader in NERC compliance services and works with power providers to develop and reach their NERC compliance goals.

 

 

With experience providing guidance in all eight North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) regions across North America, ICF possesses an in-depth understanding of NERC standards, their origin, and how to comply in a timely and cost-effective manner. We offer results-driven assessments and actionable recommendations to those responsible for the reliability of the bulk power system.

As compliance requirements shift and audits get tougher, ICF offers comprehensive services that ensure our clients meet their NERC compliance goals. These services include:

ICF has extensive experience in regulatory affairs, regulatory compliance, compliance program development, training development, cybersecurity, and transmission modeling, giving us the broad perspective we need to assist clients with their compliance goals. Our staff includes former NERC auditors and NERC compliance managers.

ICF uses this experience to offer our clients a suite of services that integrate NERC compliance into an overall business strategy. These integrated services include:

  • Business process and design
  • Ongoing compliance assessments
  • Outsourcing
  • Violation support
 

Featured Resources

  • Compliance program development—ICF assists clients in the development and implementation of compliance programs that are sustainable and robust and can meet the demands of mandatory and evolving standards while integrating with existing business processes and culture.
  • Compliance policy and procedure development and training—ICF has extensive experience in developing policies and procedures to address reliability requirements and can provide training on NERC procedures to support consistent performance of compliance-related tasks.
  • Business process and design—ICF’s approach to business process design and implementation solves business and technical problems and defines a platform to support compliance goals.
  • Internal controls development—ICF works with clients to design, implement, and assess internal controls and related audit programs to achieve long-term and sustainable compliance. Internal controls help accomplish compliance goals by defining and documenting expectations, establishing responsibility and accountability, and providing a monitoring component to measure and report compliance.
  • Audit preparatory assistance: gap analysis and mock audit—ICF performs gap analyses and mock audits to assess the state of compliance for NERC policies and procedures and help prepare client personnel for audit. The most effective way to prepare for a NERC audit is through a third-party evaluation of compliance program documentation, procedures, and evidence.
  • Cybersecurity—ICF has assisted entities in all eight regions in complying with critical infrastructure protection ( CIP) standards. We provide transmission modeling and risk-based engineering assessments and, based upon the applicability of CIP standards, can help design and implement programs to achieve, monitor, and document compliance.
  • Ongoing compliance assessments—Compliance is not a one-time activity. ICF designs internal audit programs to sample compliance activities on a defined timetable that considers compliance history, violation risk factors, industry compliance violation trends, and compliance reporting obligations.
  • Violation support—The response to a notice of alleged violation requires thoughtful creation and decisive execution. ICF works with clients to review findings and develop defensible positions by identifying appropriate or missing compliance evidence and documenting factors that can help reduce culpability scores. ICF can also prepare compliance teams for investigation interviews and depositions.
  • Caithness Energy
  • Entergy
  • enXco
  • Florida Power and Light
  • General Electric (GE)
  • Horizon Wind Energy
  • North American Energy Alliance (NAEA)
  • Orion Energy
  • PJM
  • San Diego Gas and Electric
  • Southern California Edison
  • Xcel Energy

Contact Info

Email:
info at icfi dot com

Phone:
1.703.934.3603 or 1.800.532.4783

Address:
9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22031-1207 USA

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