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NERC Opens Comment Period for Transmission Relay Loadability Standard

September 19, 2006 // Published as a news service by IHS

The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) Standards Authorization Committee (SAC) posted the first draft of the Transmission Relay Loadability Standard for a 45-day comment period.

The draft standard will be available for comment through Sept. 29, 2006.

According to NERC, this standard codifies the relay loadability criteria embodied in:

NERC Recommendation 8a - Improve System Protection to Slow or Limit the Spread of Future Cascading Outages.
U.S./Canada Power System Outage Task Force Recommendation 21A - Make More Effective and Wider Use of System Protection Measures.

Source: North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC).