NERC floats standards for protection systems

摘要

North American Electric Reliability Corp. last week petitioned the USrnFederal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve reliability standards forrnprotection systems that help detect and isolate faults on the power grid.rn“Protection systems help maintain reliability by isolating faultedrnequipment, thereby reducing the risk of instability or cascading, andrnleaving the remainder of the bulk power system operational and morerncapable of withstanding a future contingency,” NERC said in itsrnSeptember 2 petition (RM16-22).