The team developing NERC's cold weather standards provided a preview of the new requirements in an industry webinar.

NERC's Standards Committee agreed to a shortened comment period for two proposed cold weather standards to meet a deadline set by the Board of Trustees.

The NERC Standards Committee voted to delay approving the draft standards authorization request despite a plea from NERC vice president Howard Gugel,

Speakers at the North American Generator Forum's Virtual Compliance Conference shared warnings about the grid's most pressing reliability risks.

FERC approved NERC's proposed cold weather reliability standards in an order that recognized more standards would likely be necessary in the future.

ReliabilityFirst's Don Urban discussed NERC's new cold weather standards at this year's NAES-NERC conference, urging utilities to start implementation early.

NERC's board approved standards requiring generators to protect their units against freezing and share their cold weather operating parameters.

NERC's cold weather standards development team hopes to bring the standards before the Board of Trustees by June 11.

The team working on winter preparedness standards confirmed that the joint inquiry by NERC and FERC into the Texas outages will not affect its schedule.

FERC approved a settlement between SERC Reliability and Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. for violations of NERC reliability standards.