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The Standards Committee is seeking industry experts to serve on the System Protection Coordination
Standard Drafting Team.
Purpose/Industry
Need
Protection
system coordination is an absolute necessity for the North American
electric system to operate properly.
PRC-001 is a Version 0 standard, and was translated from an
operating policy that was appropriate in an era of voluntary
compliance.
The
Version 0 standards and recent updates were put in place as a temporary
starting point to start up the electric reliability organization and
begin enforcement of mandatory standards. However,
it is important to update those standards, incorporating improvements to
make the standards more suitable for enforcement.
Both
FERC (within Order 693) and the SPCTF (in their report on PRC-001)
identified significant shortcomings in the existing standard.
The
purpose of standard PRC-001-1 — System Protection Coordination should
remain “To ensure system protection is coordinated among operating
entities.”
The standard should be revised to:
- Assure
that Protection System application and performance issues are
coordinated among all related entities.
- Correct
the applicable entities within the standard to reflect the actual
functional responsibilities, as described in the NERC Functional
Model.
- Incorporate
other general improvements described in the standards development
work plan and from other sources.
- Address
directives received from ERO regulatory authorities.
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