Joint Technical Conference Focuses on Follow-up to February 2021 Cold Weather Outage Report

​FERC, NERC and the Regional Entities will host a technical conference, Improving Winter-readiness of Generating Units, on Wednesday and Thursday. The two-day conference is an important follow-up on findings and recommendations highlighted in the FERC, NERC, and Regional Entity Staff Report published in November 2021, The February 2021 Cold Weather Outages in Texas and the South Central United States. Participants from the electricity and natural gas industries, along with industry trade associations, will discuss how to improve the winter readiness of generating units, including best practices, lessons learned and the increased use of NERC guidelines. The conference is being held virtually will be broadcast HERE.

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