Stay ahead of evolving requirements with a centralized, accurate, and defensible ratings solution built for NERC and FERC compliance

Cascade Facility Ratings empowers utilities with a centralized, audit-ready solution to calculate, manage, and report ratings for all current-carrying elements. Stay compliant with NERC FAC-008, PRC-023, and FERC Order 881 while improving system reliability and reducing regulatory risk.  

The fully configurable software empowers your team to apply consistent, defensible ratings to all current carrying assets.

Backed by DNV's technical expertise, Cascade Facility Ratings provides a trusted, future-ready platform for managing facility ratings with precision ensuring regulatory compliance, operational consistency, and system-wide reliability.

Streamlining rating change and approval processes

Strengthening system reliability

Stay audit-ready with ease

All your element and facility ratings, in one reliable place

Cascade Facility Ratings brings together all your current-carrying element data in a single, trusted platform making it easier to manage, update, and demonstrate compliance with confidence.

Consistent, standards-based accuracy you can trust

Ensure every element rating is calculated using a unified, technically sound methodology whether developed in-house or aligned with industry standards like IEC and IEEE to support system reliability and simplify compliance.

Identify the Most Limiting Series Elements (MLSE) in your network with ease

Calculate ratings for each current carrying asset and easily identify the first and second most limiting elements across different temperatures and durations ranges in each of your facilities.

Simplify compliance reporting and reduce regulatory stress

Quickly generate clear, accurate reports to demonstrate compliance with standards like NERC FAC-008 and PRC-023. Cascade Facility Ratings helps reduce your regulatory workload so you can focus on reliability, performance, and serving your customers.

Ratings methodologies built around your utility’s needs

Cascade Facility Ratings lets you tailor and apply rating calculation methods that match your operational realities ensuring precise, effective ratings management across your entire system.

Be audit-ready anytime, every time

With a complete history of ratings changes, approvals, maintenance records, and supporting evidence at your fingertips, Cascade Facility Ratings ensures you're always prepared to demonstrate compliance with confidence.

Future-ready for FERC Order 881 compliance

Cascade Facility Ratings is built to support Ambient Adjusted and future Dynamic Line Ratings delivering the validation, forecasting, reporting, and integrations you need to meet FERC Order 881 requirements with confidence.

Integrate with existing IT systems

Cascade Facility Ratings supports data export to PSS®E, CYME, EMS systems, as well as distribution analysis software such as Synergi Electric.

FAQs on Cascade Facility Ratings software for regulatory compliance (NERC/FERC):

NERC FAC-008 compliance software. 

Cascade Facility Ratings is the first enterprise system for tracking and managing electric facility and element ratings (thermal ratings), including support for NERC FAC-008 compliance. 

Cascade Facility Ratings manages approval workflows as facility ratings change due to equipment updates or maintenance. Cascade Facility Ratings ensures audit history is available to support NERC FAC-008 compliance and to relieve audit prep burdens.

Yes, Cascade Facility Ratings is a NERC FAC-008 compliance software solution. 

Cascade Facility Ratings ensures audit history is available to support NERC compliance. Cascade Facility Ratings will automatically document and store changes that happen to any facility or element in your system and Cascade Facility Ratings Setup is the digital repository for your Facility Ratings Methodology.

Facility ratings approval are handled through a regulated process that captures who approved the element or facility and when it was approved. 

This information is stored in Cascade Facility Ratings NERC compliance software every time an element or facility is approved and can be accessed later for reporting and audit purposes.

Yes. Cascade Facility Ratings 2.80 has a Capital Planning module which allows users to add facilities and elements to Cascade Facility Ratings which will be installed at a future date. 

Cascade Facility Ratings NERC compliance software will then alert subscribed users when that date arrives and the user can then take appropriate action.

Customers at power utilities can work with DNV to generate custom reports using any of the data in the Cascade Facility Ratings database. 

Cascade Facility Ratings NERC compliance software can also be pointed at existing reports on the customer's network and those reports can then be run from within Cascade Facility Ratings.

Cascade Facility Ratings is a single source of truth for facility ratings information. We store, archive and alert on changes to facility ratings across your entire electric grid. 

Cascade Facility Ratings for NERC compliance also works with other software and systems. Cascade Facility Ratings can take data out of other systems (financial or asset management for example) or fee data back into systems used in other parts of your business, such as load-flow modelling or simulation.

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