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.

FERC approved a settlement between SERC Reliability and Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. for violations of NERC reliability standards.

FERC approved the full retirement of four NERC reliability standards and the modification of five others.

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

NERC is requesting comments from stakeholders on changes to proposed updates to the requirements for determining and communicating system operating limits.

FERC accepted settlements with Public Service Company of New Mexico and NV Energy for violations of NERC reliability standards.

FERC accepted a $450,000 settlement between the Northeast Power Coordinating Council and three Avangrid utilities for violations of operations standards.