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Protection System and Relay Misoperation Reporting



 Welcome

In an effort to address one of the top reliability issues, the NERC Electric Reliability Organization Reliability Assessment and Performance Analysis (ERO-RAPA) group is requesting data concerning protection and control system misoperations. To address this issue a misoperation reporting template has been developed and adopted throughout NERC. The ERO-RAPA group is collecting this data to analyze the Automatic Transmission Outages Caused by Protection System Misoperations metric (ALR4-1). This metric is used to gauge performance of protection and control systems. Data should be submitted according to the following schedule at https://fileupload.wecc.biz

 Action

 Reports Due to WECC

 Submission of the first Quarter 2012 data

 May 31, 2012

 Submission of the second Quarter 2012 data

 August 31, 2012

 Submission of the third Quarter 2012 data

 November 30, 2012

 Submission of the fourth Quarter 2012 data

 February 28, 2013

The ERO-RAPA group has put together a list of the most commonly asked questions for protection systems and relay misoperation reporting. If you still have questions that were not answered by this Q&A, please submit any questions to misops@wecc.biz and we will post the questions and answers on the WECC Questions and Answers section below. 

On Septermber 29, 2011 we recoreded the Misoperation Reporting Webinar. In order to view this recording you will need the the WebEX ARF player. Once you click on the link you will get an option to download this player.

** Download Instructions: To download the files below please right mouse click the name of the file and select Save Target As.. **

 Protection System and Relay Misoperation Documents

Misoperation Reporting Webinar.pptxMisoperation Reporting Webinardtucker@wecc.biz
Misoperation Reporting Submittals Clarification Letter  Effective October 1 2011 (2).pdfMisoperation Reporting Submittals Clarification Letter Effective October 1 2011 (2)dtucker@wecc.biz
Protection_System_Misoperation_Reporting_Template_Final.xlsxProtection_System_Misoperation_Reporting_Template_Finaldtucker@wecc.biz

 WECC Questions and Answers

QuestionFilterAnswerFilter
How does Registered Entities report if they have had no misoperations for that quarter?
In the Misoperation Reporting Submittals Clarification Letter Effective October 1, 2011 it states "Registered Entities are not required to submit a report if no misoperations have occurred. The Standards only require reporting of misoperations
     
 

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Doug Tucker
WECC
(801) 819-7606

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