Facility ratings management and NERC FAC 008-3 compliance software - LOAD
Fully integrated electric facility ratings management software solution
LOAD Facility Ratings Management System is the industry’s first fully integrated facility ratings management solution. LOAD offers a single enterprise solution for NERC compliance (North American Electric Reliability Corporation) and all aspects of calculating, approving and reporting element and facility ratings across your entire organization.
· LOAD is your single source of truth for electric facility ratings information, ensuring a consistent technical process, minimizing data loss and improving accessibility of information between engineering, planning, operations, and NERC FAC 008-3 compliance
· The first commercially-available software program to consistently rate all equipment on the line
· Performs thermal rating calculations to accommodate different climate conditions to support a reliable grid and NERC requirements
· Allows for the use of industry standard (IEEE) algorithms for rating conductors, transformers and other equipment.
· Flexible reporting options
· Can be fully integrated with your other IT systems, and provides a platform for data export to PSS®E, CYME, EMS systems, as well as distribution analysis software, such as Synergi Electric
· On-going support and facilities rating management best practices expertise is available through our experienced implementation and advisory service teams
· Helps ensure you have accurate, up-to-date facilities rating information easily available
· Reduces time and stress required for compliance reporting for reliability standards, such as NERC FAC 008-3
· Consistent and technically accurate ratings methodology
· Helps you determine the specific piece of equipment that most limits throughput along a particular line (most limiting series element)
· Technically accurate and consistent electric facility ratings methodology to ease NERC compliance
· Ensures all stakeholders have easy access to the most recent approved or historical ratings
· Supports improvement of accuracy, consistency and efficiency of facility ratings management
· Frees up key technical staff and subject matter experts (SMEs ) to focus on system reliability, planning, and operations
· Automatic tracking of facility ratings and maintenance of audit record for line, facility and element and changes
· Configurable security settings to ensure necessary access and edit controls across teams
· Supplied with full user documentation and training