NERC's Standards Committee agreed to a shortened comment period for two proposed cold weather standards to meet a deadline set by the Board of Trustees.

FERC OK'd a settlement between ReliabilityFirst and ITC Transmission for violations of NERC reliability standards at the Dearborn Industrial Generation site.

FERC last week approved penalties against utilities in the footprints of ReliabilityFirst, MRO, and WECC for violations of NERC reliability standards.