Despite objections from some members, NERC's Standards Committee approved adding members to several standards development projects.

NERC's Standards Committee heard an update on the progress of the ERO's cold weather standard and efforts to develop guidance for trustees' next invocation of Section 321.

Industry commenters mostly supported NERC's draft cold weather standard, but several called for further revisions.

SERC Reliability's Long-Term Reliability Assessment projected four of the regional entity's seven subregions will fall below NERC's reference margin in the coming decade.

FERC approved two new standards outlining how entities must conduct energy reliability assessments to identify potential future emergencies.

FERC approved settlements between ReliabilityFirst and two separate utilities in its footprint for violations of NERC reliability standards.

Members of the Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative urged regulators and policymakers not to rely solely on NERC's ITCS to guide transmission planning.

FERC approved four proposed reliability standards: three relating to inverter-based resources and one for extreme weather planning.

Industry leaders spoke on the grid's supply chain challenges at a technical session during NERC's Board of Trustees committee meetings in Miami.

NERC's chair and CEO touted the ERO's work across borders in a Board of Trustees meeting that featured leadership turnover and an initiative to remake the standards development process.