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PJM's Operating Committee heard proposals on improving the dispatch of renewables, changes to max emergency status and a new cold weather advisory.
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FERC approved Texas RE's settlement with AEP over communication failures during a 2018 load loss incident.
NERC's Standards Committee voted to move forward with five standards projects, with only two agenda items sparking any debate.
FERC approved two settlements between WECC and APS and WECC and WAPA, as well as one between SERC and TVA, for violating NERC standards.
A settlement approved by FERC describes how Broad River Energy hid generator outages at its South Carolina facility and misled SERC for years.
The NERC Standards Committee voted to delay approving the draft standards authorization request despite a plea from NERC vice president Howard Gugel,
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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.
In a new report, FERC and the ERO Enterprise detailed recommendations for utilities to improve the performance of their real-time assessments.
NERC's board approved standards requiring generators to protect their units against freezing and share their cold weather operating parameters.
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