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The NERC board approved a new reliability standard for extreme cold weather preparedness and operations that industry stakeholders previously rejected.
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The impasse over the ERO’s latest cold weather standard has ended, with EOP-012-2 finally receiving enough votes from industry stakeholders to pass its third formal comment and ballot period.
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NERC is taking comments on a winter reliability standard for generators that has failed to clear its stakeholder process twice.
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NERC's Standards Committee agreed to authorize a reduced ballot period for a twice-rejected proposed reliability standard.
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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.
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Speakers at the North American Generator Forum’s annual Compliance Conference acknowledged “the volume of [standards development] projects has increased over the last two years” at NERC.
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Facing mounting deadlines, NERC's Standards Committee agreed to shorten industry comment periods on two projects.
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The team revising NERC’s cold weather standard has more work ahead after industry respondents put the freeze on their latest proposed revisions with a negative segment-weighted vote of more than 56%.
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NERC’s Standards Committee kept up momentum on the organization’s efforts to harden the electric grid against extreme cold.
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FERC ordered two new NERC reliability standards in response to the February 2021 winter storm that nearly led to the collapse of the Texas Interconnection.
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