2021-25674. Improving Winter-readiness of Generating Units; Notice of Technical Conference

Take notice that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) will convene a Joint Technical Conference with NERC and the Regional Entities in the above-referenced proceeding on Thursday, April 28, 2022 from approximately 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. The conference will be held either in-person—at the Commission's headquarters at 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426 in the Commission Meeting Room (with a WebEx option available)—or electronically.

The purpose of this conference is to discuss how to improve the winter-readiness of generating units, including best practices, lessons learned and increased use of the NERC Guidelines, as recommended in the Joint February 2021 Cold Weather Outages Report.^[1]

The conference will be open for the public to attend, and there is no fee for attendance. Supplemental notices will be issued prior to the conference with further details regarding the agenda, how to register to participate, and the format (including whether the technical conference will be held in-person or electronically). Information on this technical conference will also be posted on the Calendar of Events on the Commission's website, www.ferc.gov,, prior to the event.

The conference will also be transcribed. Transcripts will be available for a fee from Ace Reporting, [phone].

Commission conferences are accessible under section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations, please send an email to [e-mail], call toll-free [phone] (voice) or [phone] (TTY), or send a fax to [phone] with the required accommodations.

For more information about this technical conference, please contact Lodie White at [e-mail] or [phone]. For information related to logistics, please contact Sarah McKinley at [e-mail] or [phone].

Dated: November 18, 2021.

Debbie-Anne A. Reese,

Deputy Secretary.

Footnotes

1.   See The February 2021 Cold Weather Outages in Texas and the South Central United States—FERC, NERC and Regional Entity Staff Report at pp 18, 192 (November 16, 2021). file:///C:/Users/ldwer41/Documents/Technical%20Conference%20on%20Improving%20Generating%20Units%20Winter-Readiness/The%20February%202021%20Cold%20Weather%20Outages%20Final%20Report.pdf.