Compliance Execution · Regulated Energy & Infrastructure
We make growing energy operators audit-ready: NERC CIP procedures written, evidence libraries structured, corrective actions closed — delivered by vetted specialists whose work we manage, report, and prove every week.
Currently running multi-consultant NERC CIP execution for a utility-scale battery storage operator.
REG-01 · The Problem
Fast-growing operators know their obligations. What they lack is execution capacity — and the two traditional answers don't deliver it.
Senior partners run an assessment, deliver a roadmap, and disappear. Eight months later the findings PDF is still on SharePoint — and nothing on it has an owner, a procedure, or evidence behind it.
You bought advice. The work remains.You get resumes. If a placement works out, you still carry the management burden, the quality risk, and the continuity risk when that one person leaves with everything in their head.
You bought a person. Not delivery.Vetted specialists — CIP project managers, procedure writers, compliance analysts — operating inside UPC's delivery system: weekly reports, hours transparency, risk tracking, quality control, and accountability to outcomes.
The work gets done. In writing. Every week.REG-02 · Services
Defined outcomes, fixed scopes, and a delivery cadence written into every agreement. Start bounded; expand when the work earns it.
For new compliance leaders and post-acquisition integrations.
Not a findings PDF. A risk-ranked, owner-assigned, effort-estimated execution plan covering obligation coverage, procedure inventory, evidence structure, and SME ownership gaps — ready to run the day it lands.
For operators with an audit window in the next 4–9 months.
Walk into your Regional Entity audit with requirement-mapped, retrievable evidence and current procedures: gap assessment, library build and population, RSAW narrative support, and a mock data-request drill before the real one arrives.
For newly registered entities — or anyone whose procedures were written for the filing and never touched again.
Fifteen to forty operationalized procedures and SOPs, drafted from SME interviews in your voice, with a requirement traceability matrix, document control, and a named owner on every document.
For anyone with an active data request, self-report, or mitigation plan — and a deadline.
Response project management, evidence assembly and QC, narrative drafting, and milestone tracking through closure. You're buying speed and certainty; that's what shows up.
For growing operators running a fleet on a one-to-three-person compliance team.
A fractional UPC pod — project management, procedure writing, and analyst capacity — owns a defined slice of your compliance operations: the obligation register stays current, evidence stays organized, procedures stay reviewed, corrective actions close on time. Reported to your leadership monthly, reviewed quarterly. Compliance on a system, not on heroics.
REG-03 · The Delivery System
Every UPC engagement — one consultant or a full pod — runs on the same operating cadence. It's written into the agreement, and it's the reason our clients never get surprised by an invoice, a slipped deliverable, or an audit finding.
// THE WEEKLY CADENCE — NON-NEGOTIABLE
Deliverables in flight and hours forecast against your approved cap — before the week starts.
Anything trending late gets flagged mid-week with an owner and an ask — not discovered on Friday.
Every consultant, every hour, against approved caps — so month-end invoices are a formality, never a conversation.
One page: delivered, in progress, top risks with asks, and the decisions we need from you — dated.
A one-page value scorecard to your leadership monthly; a quarterly review of program health and the risks we see ahead.
REG-04 · Proof
A rapidly growing utility-scale BESS operator faced the classic scaling problem: CIP obligations compounding faster than internal compliance capacity, with documentation work competing against operations for SME time.
UPC deployed a NERC CIP Project Manager and Procedure Writer inside our full delivery system — weekly deliverable reports, Thursday hours summaries, corrective action tracking, SME ownership mapping, and evidence structure.
The client's team directs the program. UPC produces the procedures, structures the evidence, and proves the work weekly — so nothing depends on one overloaded person, and audit readiness compounds instead of eroding.
REG-05 · Who We Serve
When clients call us
A new NERC registration with an effective date approaching · an audit notification from your Regional Entity · a site crossing into medium-impact CIP scope · a self-report or mitigation plan in motion · rapid asset growth outpacing compliance capacity · the departure of the one person who knew where everything was.
REG-06 · How It Starts
A complimentary 20-minute working session. Pick three CIP requirements; we walk through what you'd hand an auditor today and score it against a real Regional Entity data request — honestly, live.
20 min · No cost · No pitch
Where gaps exist, a fixed-fee assessment turns them into an execution plan: risk-ranked, owner-assigned, effort-estimated. The output is a workplan, not a warning.
3–4 weeks · Fixed fee · Creditable
Specialists deploy inside the UPC delivery system within weeks — kickoff in five business days, first deliverable dated in the SOW, and the weekly cadence running from day one.
Kickoff ≤ 5 business days · Weekly reporting
REG-07 · Start Here
The most common gap we find isn't missing evidence. It's evidence that exists but can't be located, mapped to a requirement, and produced inside a 10-day deadline. Twenty minutes tells you which side of that line you're on.
Prefer email? contact@unitedplanetconsulting.com — include your Regional Entity and next key compliance date, and we'll come prepared.