NERC's Standards Committee once again registered disapproval of a standard project team's response to industry feedback, but it stopped short of ending it.

Membership criteria for standard drafting teams (SDTs) are reliable sources of disagreement on NERC’s Standards Committee, and Wednesday’s meeting was no different. The dispute this time revolved around the nominees to the SDT for Project 2021-03 (CIP-002 Transmission owner control centers). NERC initiated the project in March to "evaluate the...

NERC’s Standards Committee approved the addition of a new member to the standards drafting team (SDT) working on its cold weather standard project (Project 2019-06) to replace a member who is retiring, even though the project is expected to wrap up within the next two months. The proposed standards are...