Support for additional NERC standards including
PRC-019-1 PRC-023-2, PRC-025-1 and, PRC-026-1
Ann Arbor, Michigan – February 18, 2016 – Electrocon International, the full-service developer and marketer of CAPE software for protection system simulation and data management, has announced support for PRC-027 is now available within its latest software version CAPE 14. The feature that supports fault level comparisons was released to selected companies last June and is now available to all CAPE 14 users.
“Support for PRC-027 and other industry regulatory standards is what CAPE has been about since its inception thirty years ago,” remarked Paul F. McGuire, EE, MSEE, PE and President of Electrocon International. “CAPE 14, addresses many of the top issues facing protection engineers today, including the need to conduct numerous studies to meet NERC regulatory requirements such as PRC-027, which has recently received committee approval. Utilities need tools that automate the generation of report data and CAPE provides the ability to significantly reduce the amount of manual effort required to create the information for these reports.”
CAPE offers extensive tools for detailed relay modeling that help engineers manage voluminous and complex network data, uncover potential problems, and examine alternative solutions. Supporting the system protection function within electric power utilities, CAPE is used by transmission, distribution and generation companies as well as electrical engineering firms in more than 50 countries on six continents worldwide.
PRC-027 is a standard “to maintain the coordination of protection systems installed for the purpose of detecting faults on BES elements and isolating those faulted elements, such that the protection systems operate in the intended sequence during faults.”
To support PRC-027, Electrocon developed new features for creating and comparing entire-system fault levels along with methods for exporting settings.
CAPE’s System Simulator and Relay Checking modules provide for “quality reviews.” The “Wide-Area Coordination Review” concept, i.e. system simulations managed by customized macros, was first conducted on a large scale review in 2006 by a CAPE utility user in Spain. Since that time, other utilities and consulting firms have continued to develop and refine the assessment method. CAPE’s automated relay setting macro, first developed in 2001, has been utilized by many utilities and is currently being implemented by one European utility as part of a multi-million Euro project to fully integrate grid management including short- and long-term planning as well as maintenance.
“Providing continuous improvements, based on input from CAPE users and meeting the latest industry standards and regulatory requirements, along with our responsive customer support, has been key to Electrocon’s success and the reason why we have customers who have worked with us for 5-, 10-, 15- 20- and even 30-years,” commented McGuire.
In addition to PRC-027, CAPE 14 provides support for NERC standards PRC-019-1 (coordination of Generator Voltage Regulator Controls with Unit Capabilities and Protection), PRC-023-2 (Transmission Relay Loadability), PRC-025-1 (Generator Relay Loadability), and PRC-026-1 (Stable power Swing Relay Loadability).
For more information about how CAPE supports the various regulatory standards, visit us on the web at www.electrocon.com or call +1 734-761-8612 extension 202 or email eii@electrocon.com.