FERC accepts changes to Cold Weather Standards – EOP-011-3 (Emergency Operations) and EOP-012-1 (Extreme Cold Weather Preparedness and Operations), including their associated violation risk factors and violation severity levels, and the newly defined terms Generator Cold Weather Critical Component, Extreme Cold Weather Temperature, and Generator Cold Weather Reliability Event.  The FERC directs NERC to (i) develop modifications to address the concerns regarding Requirements R1 and R7, as well as other concerns identified as to other aspects of EOP-012-1; (ii) reduce the proposed implementation time and to include a staggered implementation for Requirement R2 to reduce reliability risks; and (iii) to submit a plan within 12 months on how it will collect and assess, through annual and event-based data submittals, the following elements of Reliability Standard EOP-012-1: (1) generator owner declared constraints and explanations thereof; and (2) the adequacy of the Extreme Cold Weather Temperature definition.

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