2020 Small Entity Seminar

Marcus Beasley

SERC Reliability Corporation Compliance Auditor

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Marcus is currently an O&P Auditor at SERC performing compliance monitoring functions in accordance with NERC Rules of Procedure. He plays an integral role performing compliance audits of registered entities. He also participates in the assessment of risk to appropriately develop a compliance oversight plan and scope compliance monitoring activities. Before joining SERC, Marcus worked with Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as a Transmission Operator (TOP). He was responsible for the operation of a quarter of the TVA electrical grid. Additional responsibilities included writing and issuing switching, navigating complex secondary electrical circuits, responding to system disturbance, and assisting with planned outage logistics. Prior to TVA Transmission Operations, he worked with Hydro Dispatch Control Cell. In this role he managed 29 TVA hydro facilities remoted to System Operations Center. He also worked in real-time with a multi- organizational management team to assure TVA power generation and power systems were operated in a reliable and economic manner. Additional experience includes making economic and operational decisions regarding generation and reactive power generation in coordination with the BA and TOP. As a coordinator, he determined the amount of energy and reactive power needs of a given unit. As a member of the Asset

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Availability Team, he managed hydro outages and outage requests. He also coordinated load balancing and performed switching at various hydro facilities under the direction of the TOP to safely perform maintenance and other operations.

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