On September 29, 2014, in Docket No. RM14-8, NERC submitted comments in response to FERC’s July 17, 2014 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) proposing to approve Reliability Standard PRC-005-3 (Protection System and Automatic Reclosing Maintenance).  The proposed Reliability Standard requires applicable entities to test and maintain certain autoreclosing relays as part of a protection system maintenance program. In its comments, NERC supports FERC’s proposal to approve the proposed Reliability Standards.

To view NERC’s comments, click here.