Facility ratings management and NERC compliance software - LOAD

NERC compliance and facility ratings software

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. 

Facility ratings information

• 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
  

Key benefits of LOAD software for facility ratings management

• 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