New IEEE Standard Proposed
Environmental
Requirements for Communications Networking Devices installed in Electric Power
Substations
by John T. Tengdin -- Editor-in-Chief
February 2002
The cry has been: What are the requirements for networking devices –
modems, hubs, switches, routers, firewalls, etc. – installed in substations?
What temperature, humidity, dielectric strength in IEEE Standard C37.90? How
about the SWC and fast transient tests in IEEE C37.90.1? How RF immunity and
electrostatic discharge tests in IEEE C37.90.2 and C37.90.3? To answer these
questions, the IEEE PES Substations Committee has decided to act.
During the IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting in New York January
27 –31, 2002, a new Task Force (TF1) was formed under the Substations
Committee Working Group C2 Application
of New Technologies in Substation Monitoring and Control.
The new Task Force (C2TF1) is charged with drafting a new IEEE standard
specifically applicable to communications networking devices installed in
electric power substations. The intent is to create one document that is
specific to substation monitoring and control. The Task Force plans to avoid
“re-inventing the wheel” and adapt from existing standards specific to
protective relaying where ever possible.
The
need is urgent, so the task force has set an ambitious schedule – to have a
first draft ready for ballot by the end of October 2002. There are now twelve
members of the task force, the PAR has been submitted for consideration at the
March 20 Standards Board meeting, and a first draft is already in progress. If
you want to help in this effort, contact your Editor at J.T.Tengdin@ieee.org.
He is the chair of C2TF1, and welcomes anyone willing to work.
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