Certrec and Fischer Block will help to initialize Fischer Block’s easy to install Smart Block® devices. These devices contain high-resolution sensors for gathering data without disruption to plant operations. After the devices begin gathering data with Fischer Block’s wave iQ® and filtering data through advanced predictive analytics software, Certrec will utilize the Certrec Portal, and regulatory consultants will provide decision-making insights taken from the data.
Through this alliance, both Certrec and Fischer Block will continue to work toward enhancing the electric grid’s resilience and reliability. Maintenance personnel, engineers, and plant managers will be able to engage potential threats proactively and gather evidence for upcoming audits more efficiently than ever before. This will reduce the likelihood of plant shutdowns, fines from audits, and reputational damage, ensuring customers have dependable access to electricity from a reliable grid.
The possible uses for this technology are exciting. For example, Fischer Block’s 24/7 spectral monitoring was able to detect a motor’s cracked rotor bar, which avoided a catastrophic failure. When this technology is combined with Certrec’s regulatory experience, plants can be warned whenever they must take corrective actions based on diagnostics. Certrec’s experts can then communicate what documentation evidence needs to be gathered for NERC. Through this new alliance, plants get a technological advantage to avoid both plant malfunctions and inadequate paper trails.
About Fischer Block:
Applying AI and Machine Learning to electrical signatures, Fischer Block, Inc. brings innovative power system and asset monitoring solutions to the electrical power industry. Combining patented high-resolution edge-intelligent sensors with advanced analytical software solutions, the Fischer Block wave iQ® platform provides grid and plant operators alike, with new insights into power system performance and health of critical assets.
An early warning system into pending problems, fully isolated from command-and-control, the wave iQ® platform offers a new level of safety and security, while helping improve system reliability and resiliency.
To learn more about Fischer Block technologies and how their solutions are currently being deployed across industry, click here.
About Certrec:
Certrec is a leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions for the energy industry with the mission of helping ensure a stable, reliable, bulk electric supply. Since 1988, Certrec’s SaaS applications and consulting know-how have helped hundreds of power-generating facilities manage their regulatory compliance and reduce their risks.
Certrec’s engineers and business teams bring a cumulative 1,500 years of working experience in regulatory areas of compliance, engineering, and operations, including nuclear, fossil, solar, wind facilities, and other Registered Entities generation and transmission.
Certrec has helped more than 120 generating facilities establish and maintain NERC Compliance Programs. We manage the entire NERC compliance program for 60+ registered entities in the US and Canada that trust us to decrease their regulatory and reputational risk. Certrec is ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified and has successfully completed annual SOC 2 Type 2 examinations.
For press and media enquiries, please contact marketing@certrec.com.
Related Events
- MAY 11, 2023
- 10:00 to 10:40 AM Central TIme
Fischer Block’s CEO, Greg Wolfe, will present their SMART Block® solution and the benefits of digitization. Certrec’s Director of NERC Compliance, Evans Heacock, will explain how Certrec will help power plants interpret data gathered from these devices. This free webinar will primarily be focused on use cases.
Presenters
Greg Wolfe
President & CEO - Fischer Block, Inc.
Evans Heacock
Certrec’s NERC Compliance Director
- APRIL 27, 2023
- 10:00 to 10:40 AM Central TIme
Fischer Block’s CEO, Greg Wolfe, will present their SMART Block® solution and the benefits of digitization. This solution is fully compliant with CAISO recommendations described in their 10 April memorandum regarding digital high speed recording devices capturing reliability event data on inverter-based resources. Certrec’s Director of NERC Compliance, Evans Heacock, will explain how Certrec will help power plants interpret data gathered from these devices.
Presenters
Greg Wolfe
President & CEO - Fischer Block, Inc.
Evans Heacock
Certrec’s NERC Compliance Director
- MARCH 30, 2023
- 10:00 to 10:40 AM Central TIme
Fischer Block’s CEO, Greg Wolfe, will present their SMART Block® solution and the benefits of digitization. Certrec’s Director of NERC Compliance, Evans Heacock, will explain how Certrec will help power plants interpret data gathered from these devices.
Presenters
Greg Wolfe
President & CEO - Fischer Block, Inc.
Evans Heacock
Certrec’s NERC Compliance Director
- MARCH 16, 2023
- 10:00 to 10:40 AM Central TIme
Fischer Block’s CEO, Greg Wolfe, will present their SMART Block® solution and the benefits of digitization. Certrec’s Director of NERC Compliance, Evans Heacock, will explain how Certrec will help power plants interpret data gathered from these devices. This free webinar will primarily be focused on new imaging techniques that improve fault prediction.
Presenters
Greg Wolfe
President & CEO - Fischer Block, Inc.
Evans Heacock
Certrec’s NERC Compliance Director
- MARCH 02, 2023
- 10:00 to 10:40 AM Central TIme
Fischer Block’s CEO, Greg Wolfe, will present their SMART Block® solution and the benefits of digitization. Certrec’s Director of NERC Compliance, Evans Heacock, will explain how Certrec will help power plants interpret data gathered from these devices. This free webinar will primarily be focused on use cases.
Presenters
Greg Wolfe
President & CEO - Fischer Block, Inc.
Evans Heacock
Certrec’s NERC Compliance Director
- JANUARY 20, 2023
- 10:00 to 10:40 AM Central TIme
Fischer Block’s CEO, Greg Wolfe, will present their SMART Block® solution and the benefits of digitization. Certrec’s Director of NERC Compliance, Evans Heacock, will explain how Certrec will help plants interpret data gathered from these devices.
Presenters
Greg Wolfe
President & CEO - Fischer Block, Inc.
Evans Heacock
Certrec’s NERC Compliance Director
- DECEMBER 07, 2022
- 10 AM CT
Fischer Block’s CEO, Greg Wolfe, will present their SMART Block® solution and the benefits of digitization. Certrec’s Director of NERC Compliance, Evans Heacock, will explain how Certrec will help plants interpret data gathered from these devices.
Presenters
Greg Wolfe
President & CEO - Fischer Block, Inc.
Evans Heacock
Certrec’s NERC Compliance Director
