NERC's board approved standards requiring generators to protect their units against freezing and share their cold weather operating parameters.

NERC is considering accelerating the schedule for its cold weather standard project (Project 2019-06) after last month’s winter storm that led to prolonged mass outages in Texas lent a fresh urgency to the effort, project leaders told the standard drafting team (SDT) in a conference call Monday. NERC Senior Standards...

The team modifying NERC’s standards for cold weather preparedness confirmed in a webinar Thursday that the joint inquiry by the ERO and FERC into the recent power outages in Texas and neighboring states will not affect its schedule for completing Project 2019-06, which remains on track to be finished "by...