NPCC PRC-002-NPCC-1 Disturbance Monitoring

Comments Requested

Background Information

NPCC as part of its charge from the NERC ERO must develop Regional Standards as outlined in
the NERC\ERO 2009-2011 Workplan. Comments are being sought on the Draft of NPCC’s
Disturbance Monitoring Standard that is now posted for comment. This version has incorporated
comments received from the initial postings.

The purpose of this Standard is to establish requirements for recording and reporting Sequence of
Events (SOE) data, fault recording data, and dynamic disturbance recording (DDR) data to
facilitate analysis of disturbances.

All references to equipment and facilities in the Standard unless otherwise noted are to the Bulk
Power System as defined in NPCC Criteria A-10 Classification of Bulk Power System Elements.

For various requirements, the Drafting Team has selected generating unit and plant capacity
thresholds based on information received from various NPCC Working Groups, and existing
NPCC documents.

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Comments Requested

1. Do you agree with the locations required in R1 to have Sequence of Events

recording capabilities, and the elements to be monitored? If not, please explain why
and provide suggestions.

Yes

No

Comments:

2. A. Referring to requirements R2 through R4 for Fault recorders, do you agree with

the Elements that are required to have Fault recording capability provided for? If
not, please explain why and provide suggestions.

Yes

No

Comments:

B. Do you agree with the electrical quantities specified in R5, and the Fault
recording capabilities specified in R6? If not, please explain why and provide
suggestions.

Yes

No

Comments:

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3. A. Referring to requirement R7 for Dynamic Disturbance Recording (DDR), do you
agree with each RC establishing its area’s requirements as specified in R7? If not,
please explain why and provide suggestions.

Yes

No

Comments:

B. Do you agree with the DDR trigger settings specified in R9, and the Elements to
be monitored in R10? If not, please explain why and provide suggestions.

Yes

No

Comments:

4. Do you agree with the maintenance and testing program requirement in R14? If not,
please explain why and provide suggestions.

Yes

No

Comments:

5. Although the Standard addresses post disturbance analysis, do you believe that this
Standard provided information that can lead to improvements in reliability of the
system in the future? If not, please explain why.

Yes

No

Comments:

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6. If you have any additional comments on this Standard that you have not submitted
above, please provide them here.

Comments:

7. Do you agree with the Implementation Plan? If no, please provide your comments
and suggestions.

Yes

No

Comments: