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.

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.

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 accepted proposed revisions to seven NERC reliability standards, as well as the ERO Enterprise's business plans and budget for 2021.

NERC has extended voting on Establish and Communicate System Operating Limits to Aug. 26 because six nonbinding polls failed to reach a quorum.