Standard Activities

PSRC Standards Coordinator's report
2001 - September - 30


 

The Standards Coordinator, Mohindar Sachdev, could not meet with the Chairs of the WGs writing and revising standards documents in September because the Toronto to Chicago flight he had to take was cancelled. The status of PARs, Standards and Guides are reviewed in this report. The actions to be taken for keeping the approval of the PARs up-to-date and keeping the Standards and Guides live are identified. A summary of the specific approvals received since the May 2001 meeting of the PSRC and the actions that need to be taken soon are identified as well.

The IEEE Standards Web page has Word templates, the style manual, and operations manual that can be downloaded for use in developing new standards and for revising standards. The address of the Web site is as follows.

standards.ieee.org

The new policy in standards development requires the implementation of the following policy.

After 1 January 2000, proposed new standards and revised standards submitted for approval shall use metric units exclusively in the normative portions of the standard. Inch-pound data may be included, if necessary, in footnotes or annexes that are informative only.

For more information visit thte following Web site.

standards.ieee.org/anouncements/metricpolicy

The activities of the Standards board are posted on the web site at

standards.ieee.org/board/nes and
standards.ieee.org/board/rev

A list of new, revised and withdrawn standards and standards projects listed by sponsoring IEEE Society are posted on the web site at

standards.ieee.org/sa-mem/bdapp

STANDARD ACTIVITY SINCE THE MAY 2001 MEETING OF THE PSRC
The status of the standards approval activities, which have taken place since May 2001 meeting of the PSRC, is as follows.

  1. Standards Approved:

    • C37.90.3 Standard Electrostatic Discharge Tests for Protective Relays (New Standard); was approved at the Standards Board meeting held in June 2001.

  2. Standards to be submitted for approval

    • PC37.90.1 Standard Surge Withstand Capability (SWC) Tests for Protective Relays and Relay Systems; reaffirmation balloting completed and negative ballot resolved. The standard should be submitted to the Standards Board for approval.

    • PC37.95 Guide for Protective Relaying of Utility-Consumer Interconnections; negative ballots have been resolved. The balloting was completed six months ago. The standard should be submitted to the Standards Board for approval.

  3. Standards reaffirmations in progress:

    • C37.112 Standard Inverse-Time Characteristic Equations for Overcurrent Relays; reaffirmation balloting completed. The reaffirmation will be considered at the December meeting of RevCom.

  4. Standards Balloting in progress

    • C37.104 Guide for Automatic Reclosing of Line Circuit Breakers for AC Distribution and Transmission; balloted - negative ballots are being resolved.

  5. Standards Submitted for Balloting

    • C37.94 Standard for N times 64 kilobit per second Optical Fiber Interface between Tele-protection and Multiplexer Equipment; formation of balloting body requested.

    • PC37.115 Standard Test Methods for Use in the Evaluation of Message Communications between Intelligent Electronic Devices in an Integrated Substation Protection, Control and Data Acquisition System; balloting body requested.

  6. Standards to be submitted for balloting:

    • C37.92 Standard for Low Energy Analog Signal Inputs to Protective Relays; the standard should be submitted for balloting.

    7. The PARs approved since May 2001, submitted since May 2001, and the PARs for which extension has been applied are as follows. The PARs, which will expire in the near future, are also listed. Applications for extending the lives of these PARs should be filed soon.

  7. PAR application submitted to NesCom:

    • PC37.119 Guide for Breaker Failure Protection of Power Circuit Breakers

  8. PAR extensions approved by NesCom:

    • PC37.103 Guide for Differential and Polarizing Circuit Testing extended to December 31, 2003

    • PC37.106 Guide for Abnormal Frequency Protection for Generating Plants: extended to December 31, 2003

    • PC37.114 Guide for Determining Fault Location on AC Transmission and Distribution Lines: extended to December 31, 2003

    • C37.115 Standard Test Method for Use in the Evaluation of Message Communications Between Intelligent Electronic Devices in an Integrated Substation: extended to December 31, 2003

  9. PAR extensions applied for:

    • PC37.90 Standard for Relays and Relay Systems Associated with Electrical Power Apparatus: expires on December 31, 2001

  10. PAR expirations coming up:

    • PC37.92 Standard for low Energy Analog Signal Inputs to Protective Relaying: expires on December 31, 2001

Standards Board Meeting Schedule

PAR/Standard Submittal Deadline

Standards Board Meeting

October 26, 2001

December 6, 2001

February 8, 2002

March 21, 2002

May 3, 2002

June 13, 2002

August 2, 2002

September 12, 2002

For further information download the report and spreadsheet from this site

or contact: Mohindar S. Sachdev - PSRC Standards Coordinator at

m.s.sachdev@ieee.org