Document ID: FERC-2022-0305-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Meetings: Improving Winter-Readiness of Generating Units; Technical Conference
Posted Date: 2022-03-17T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 52 (Thursday, March 17, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 15232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05584]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. AD22-4-000]

Improving Winter-Readiness of Generating Units; Supplemental 
Notice of Technical Conference

    As announced in the Notice of Technical Conference issued in this 
proceeding on November 18, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission (Commission) will convene a Joint Technical Conference with 
the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and the 
Regional Entities in the above-referenced proceeding on Wednesday, 
April 27 and Thursday, April 28, 2022 from approximately 11:00 a.m. to 
5:00 p.m. Eastern time each day. The conference will be held virtually 
via WebEx.
    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\
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    \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), https://www.ferc.gov/news-events/news/final-report-february-2021-freeze-underscores-winterization-recommendations.
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    The conference will be open for the public to attend 
electronically. Registration for the conference is not required and 
there is no fee for attendance. To join the conference, go to the web 
Calendar of Events for this event on FERC's website, www.ferc.gov. The 
link for the event will be posted at the top of the calendar page and 
will ``go live'' just prior to the conference start time. The 
conference will also be transcribed. Transcripts will be available for 
a fee from Ace Reporting, (202) 347-3700.
    Those who wish to nominate their names for consideration as a panel 
participant should submit their name, title, company, (or organization 
they are representing), telephone, email, a one-paragraph biography, 
picture, and topic they wish to address, to 
[email protected] by close of business on Friday, March 25, 
2022.
    Commission conferences are accessible under section 508 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations, please 
send an email to [email protected], call toll-free (866) 208-3372 
(voice) or (202) 208-8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208-2106 with 
the required accommodations.
    For more information about this technical conference, please 
contact Lodie White at [email protected] or (202) 502-8453. For 
information related to logistics, please contact Sarah McKinley at 
[email protected] or (202) 502-8368.

    Dated: March 10, 2022.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-05584 Filed 3-16-22; 8:45 am]
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