There's a new focus on winter weather in the Texas electricity market after February's winter storm drove the ERCOT grid to the brink of collapse.

The SERC Board of Directors reviewed the impacts of Hurricane Ida, elected a new municipal sector representative and previewed its upcoming meetings.

FERC and NERC staff shared their preliminary findings and recommendations on the February winter storm that led to unprecedented outages in Texas.

ISO-NE proposed an installed capacity requirement of 32,568 MW for FCA 16, a 1,585-MW decrease from FCA 15, at the NEPOOL Reliability Committee meeting.

NERC issued a Level 2 alert calling on registered entities to report their readiness for severe cold after multiple winter crises in recent years.

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

Texas utility representatives warned that efforts to avert future extreme weather crises could falter as memories of February's cold snap fade.

Texas RE's site visits will continue as it waits for the NERC cold-weather standards to become requirements.

A shift to electric heating will raise winter power demands, but utilities could mitigate spikes by improving buildings' "thermal envelopes," ACEEE said.

Two 345-kV lines that were knocked out when a tornado leveled four transmission towers in ComEd territory are back online.