EOP-012-1
FERC will consider several items touching on the ERO Enterprise at June 27 open meeting.
FERC approved a new reliability standard aimed at improving the security of communications between control centers.
If NERC’s latest proposed cold weather standard fails another ballot round, the ERO’s Board of Trustees may have to take matters into its own hands, Chair Ken DeFontes warned at the board’s quarterly meeting.
NERC's Board of Trustees accepted the latest proposed cold weather standards, which will now be sent to FERC for final approval.
Texas reliability and regulator officials are praising the state's efforts to weatherize their facilities following the disastrous 2021 winter storm, while the results bear them out.
FERC said petitioners' call to overturn its approval of EOP-012-1 was outside the scope of the proceeding.
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FERC said last week that “by operation of law” it would not reconsider its approval of one of NERC’s new cold weather reliability standards.
Stakeholders from across the ERO Enterprise gathered in New Orleans this week for the meeting of NERC’s Member Representatives Committee and Board of Trustees.
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The ERO Enterprise’s work preparing for extreme winter weather is far from over despite completion of the initial effort to update reliability standards.
With the passage of NERC's new cold weather standards, the work of protecting North America’s grid from winter weather has only begun.
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