Equipment Reliability. Regulatory Compliance.

When it comes to emergency power, these are two of the most pressing issues nuclear system engineers face every day. Proven leaders in the nuclear industry, PEA provides support to more than 40 utilities and 50 power plants nationwide. Its clients are primarily nuclear system, maintenance and design engineers who rely on PEA's deep technical expertise in the operation and maintenance of—as well as in the regulatory compliance of—emergency diesel generators.

Leveraging Knowledge,
Experience & Relationships

PEA works closely with companies in the nuclear industry to address industry and company-specific issues and concerns. Bringing its unique perspectives to every client engagement, PEA has designed unique solutions to a broad range of nuclear industry issues including:

• Analyzing programmatic plant failures
• Improving plant maintenance programs
• Increasing plant cost effectiveness
• Developing issue-specific white papers to communicate with executives and regulators
• Creating component and system level maintenance and issues documentation (Voltage regulators, governors, lube oil systems, etc.)

Collaboration and Leadership for
Industry-Wide Success

As project manager of the ESI-EMD Owners Group, the largest U.S. Emergency Diesel Generators (EDG) Owners Group, PEA facilitates the sharing of best practices to both increase reliability and improve regulatory compliance. Under PEA's leadership, the community provides a forum for:

• Sharing best practices
• Designing group-wide actions
• Training and education
• Building historical backgrounds for newer system engineers and engineering teams
• Developing group position and guidance reports

Members in the Owners Group enjoy a broad range of benefits including:

• Increased capacity
• Reliability & Availability optimization
• Reduced incidents of equipment failures
• Improved responsiveness
• Stronger regulatory relationships
• Solid equipment manufacturer and vendor relationships
  

Having served as the co-chair of the EPRI EDG Joint Owners Group meetings in 1997, 2000 and 2004, Bronson has worked with over 200 EDG systems engineers and stakeholders to address common industry issues.