Standard Activities

PSRC Standards Coordinator's report
2002 - January - 08


 

The Standards Coordinator, Mohindar Sachdev, met with the Chairs of the Working Groups writing and revising standards documents on January 8, 2002 in Dana VI-VII room. The status of PARs, Standards and Guides, reviewed at the meeting, are summarized 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 September 2001 meeting of the PSRC and the actions that need to be taken soon are identified as well.

Information concerning the Standards Association (SA), Board of Governors, Committees of SA, the Development of standards, Recommended Practices and Guides and related issues is available on the following web site.

standards.ieee.org

Other web sites for obtaining useful information are as follows.

Information on

Web site address

PAR application, extension
and other forms

 http//www.standards.ieee.org/guides/par/

Style manual

 http://www.standards.ieee.org/resources/glance_at_writing_new.html

Template

 http://www.standards.ieee.org/resources/glance_at_writing_new.html

Status of standards etc

 http://www.standards.ieee.org/db/status/

NesCom activities

 http://www.standards.ieee.org/board/nes/

RevCom activities

 http://www.standards.ieee.org/board/rev/

SA Operations Manual

 http://www.standards.ieee.org/sa/sa-view.html/

SA Bylaws

 http://www.standards.ieee.org/sa/sa-view.html/

SB Operations Manual

 http://www.standards.ieee.org/board/

SB Bylaws

 http://www.standards.ieee.org/board/

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

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

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

  1. Standards Approved

    • C37.112 Standard Inverse-Time Characteristic Equations for Overcurrent Relays; approved after successful reaffirmation ballot.

  2. Standards submitted for approval

    • PC37.90.1 Standard Surge Withstand Capability (SWC) Tests for Protective Relays and Relay Systems; submitted for approval after successful re-circulation..

    • PC37.108 Guide for the Protection of Network Transformers

  3. Standards submitted for balloting

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

  4. Standards to be submitted for approval

    • PC37.95 Guide for Protective Relaying of Utility-Consumer Interconnections was balloted; negative ballots have been resolved. The standard should be submitted to RevCom for approval.

    • C37.104 Guide for Automatic Reclosing of Line Circuit Breakers for AC Distribution and Transmission was balloted; negative ballots have been resolved. The standard should be submitted to RevCom for approval.

    • C37.94 Standard for N times 64 kilobit per second Optical Fiber Interface between Tele-protection and Multiplexer Equipment was balloted - successful with one negative ballot. The negative ballot should be resolved and standard submitted to RevCom for approval.

    • 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 - successful with one negative ballot. The negative ballot should be resolved and standard submitted to RevCom for approval.

  5. 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.

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

    • PC37.105 Standard for Qualifying Class 1E Protective Relays and Auxiliaries for Nuclear Power Generating Stations

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

    6. The PARs approved since September 2001, submitted since September2001, 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.

  6. New PAR approved by NesCom

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

  7. PAR extension applied for

    • PC37.92 Standard for Low Energy Analog Signal Inputs to Protective Relays; the standard should be submitted for balloting.

  8. PAR extensions approved by NesCom

    • PC37.92 Standard for Low Energy Analog Signal Inputs to Protective Relays; the standard should be submitted for balloting.

  9. PAR extensions not approved by NesCom

    • PC37.90 Standard for Relays and Relay Systems Associated with Electrical Power Apparatus: expired on December 31, 2001. This was a ten-year old PAR. It should be withdrawn and a new PAR application should be submitted.

  10. PAR expiring end of 2002

    • PC37.90.1 Standard Surge Withstand Capability (SWC) Tests for Protective Relays and Relays Systems

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

    • PC37.93 Guide for Power System Protective Relay Applications of Audio Tones over Telephone Channels

    • PC37.94 Standard for N Times 64 kilobit per second Optical Fiber Interfaces Between Teleprotection and Multiplexer Equipment

    • PC37.95 Guide for Protective Relaying Of Utility-Consumer Interconnections

    • PC37.97 Guide For Protective Relay Applications to Power System Buses

    • PC37.104 Guide for Automatic Reclosing of Line Circuit Breakers for AC Distribution and Transmission Lines

    • PC37.108 Guide for the Protection of Network Transformers

    • PC37.110 Guide for the Applications of Current Transformers Used for Protective Relaying Purposes

    • PC57.13.1 Guide for Field Testing of Relaying Current Transformers

    • PC57.13.3 Guide for the Grounding of Instrument Transformer Secondary Circuits and Cases

SUBMITTAL DEADLINES & STANDARDS BOARD MEETING SCHEDULE

PAR/Standard Submittal Deadline

Standards Board Meeting

February 8, 2002

March 21, 2002

May 3, 2002

June 13, 2002

August 2, 2002

September 12, 2002

November 1, 2002

December 11, 2002

For further information download the report and spreadsheet from this site

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

sachdev@engr.usask.ca