The team working on NERC’s proposed standard for cold weather preparedness plans to meet again to finish working through the latest round of comments.

The Standards Committee approved the posting of a report recommending new evidence retention rules and rejected a SAR on frequency response.

NERC stakeholders debated whether they should be concerned over potential opposition to a requirement that generators provide frequency response service.

An analysis by Eastern RTOs and utilities has found no advantages to changing how they measure primary frequency response.

The NERC Standards Committee postponed APS' request to amend the Disturbance Control Standard after members wanted to add justification for its rejection.

By Rich Heidorn Jr. ATLANTA — Despite the ongoing shift to renewables, the Eastern Interconnection has sufficient inertia to maintain system frequency for a...