Model and operating-project readiness

NERC Modeling & IBR Compliance Support

Engineering support for applicable NERC modeling, ride-through, disturbance analysis, model validation, protection coordination, and technical evidence requirements for inverter-based resources.

The engineering context

Start with the project problem.

Amperion supports technical assessment and evidence development for applicable NERC and regional IBR requirements by connecting in-service equipment, controls, protection, disturbance data, and validated models. Scope is defined project by project based on facility applicability, the responsible entity, current effective standards, and utility requirements.

Engineering support does not constitute legal advice, certification, or a guarantee of regulatory compliance. Applicability and final compliance determinations remain the responsibility of the registered entity and its qualified advisors.

Typical issues

  • Applicable requirements, responsibilities, and evidence owners have not been mapped across the project team.
  • As-built plant settings, protection, and submitted study models may no longer be aligned.
  • Disturbance data, simulations, OEM documentation, and technical evidence are distributed across vendors and project phases.

Scope

Where Amperion can support the team.

  • Standards applicability and requirement-to-evidence mapping
  • PRC-028 disturbance monitoring and reporting readiness
  • PRC-029 ride-through assessment and technical evidence
  • PRC-030 unexpected IBR event analysis and corrective-action engineering
  • MOD-025 and MOD-026 capability and dynamic-model verification support
  • MOD-032 modeling-data and reporting package support
  • PRC-019 and PRC-025 control, protection, and relay coordination studies, as applicable

Work product

Clear, reviewable engineering deliverables.

The final package is tailored to the project stage, utility request, and agreed scope.

  • Applicability and responsibility matrix
  • Evidence and data-gap register
  • Model, settings, and disturbance-data reconciliation package
  • Simulation and validation report with issue disposition log
  • Review-ready technical evidence package

Related support

Keep the adjacent work connected.

Interconnection Advisory

Strategy and technical coordination for queue entry, utility requirements, milestones, studies, and affected-system exposure.

View service

Power System Modeling

Model preparation, review, initialization, validation, documentation, and submission packaging across major utility platforms.

View service

EMT / PSCAD Modeling

Plant-level EMT model assembly, controller integration, initialization, checks, and utility-oriented documentation.

View service

Discuss a project

Discuss NERC modeling & IBR compliance support.

Share the project stage, market, schedule, and issue. Amperion will respond with the right next conversation.

Start a conversation