Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRC)
Join Us
Anyone interested in learning more about protective relaying or helping with our work is welcome. We meet three times per year. See when the next meeting is scheduled at pes-psrc.org/meetings. PSRC Committee meetings typically have around 250 of the world’s experts gathered together. We have around 100+ working groups doing interesting projects at any one time so there is always something of interest to contribute your expertise and knowledge to.Who We Are
Technical leaders from over 100 world-wide electric utilities; representatives from USA, Canada, EU, and Japanese suppliers; education leaders from universities with Power Programs; technical and managerial representatives from North American consulting engineering firms.
Committee Scope
Treatment of all matters in which the dominant factors are the principles, application, design, construction, testing, and operation of power system protection and control. Protection and control systems include one or more of the following functions: sensing, data acquisition and processing, fault detection, manual or automatic control, and auxiliary operation. The scope includes liaison and cooperation with other technical committees, societies, groups and associations concerned with various aspects of items herein. Our committee website is pes-psrc.org. We are working on ongoing and emerging problems associated with:
- Cybersecurity for power system infrastructure
- Wide area grid data collection with Synchrophasors
- Smart Grid Initiatives
- Grid stability under stressed conditions
- Inverter based resources
- Power Line induced wildfire ignitions
- Centralized Protection and Control Technology
Subcommittees
System Protection Subcommittee
Scope: Evaluate protection systems responses to abnormal power system states. Evaluate and report on special protection schemes, remedial actions schemes, monitoring and control systems and their performance during abnormal power system conditions. Recommend corrective strategies and develop appropriate standards, guides, or special publications. Evaluate and report on new technologies which may have a bearing on protection system performance during abnormal power system conditions.
Michael Higginson, Chair
S & C Electric Company
Web Page: https://www.pes-psrc.org/C
IEEE SA Program Manager: Malia Zaman
Line Protection Subcommittee
Scope: Investigate and report on the relaying techniques and systems used for transmission and distribution (T&D) line protection. Develop statistics and recommend protection practices for improving line relaying performance. Develop and maintain standards for line protection.
Web Page: https://www.pes-psrc.org/D
IEEE SA Program Manager: Malia Zaman
Relaying Communications and Control Subcommittee
Scope: Evaluate and report on the characteristics and performance of protective relaying communications and control systems. Recommend communication requirements, operating and test procedures which assure reliable performance of the overall protection and control system. Report on new relaying equipment designs tailored to specific communication requirements. Included are matters necessary to the function of such systems employed in the generation, transmission, distribution, and utilization of electrical energy, and their effects on system operation. Control systems include data acquisition and processing from devices such as transducers, Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), and Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) including the low-level interfaces to these systems. Power System control issues associated with Power System Dynamics are excluded from this scope.
Hugo Monterrubio, Chair
Hubbell
Web Page: https://www.pes-psrc.org/H
IEEE SA Program Manager: Malia Zaman
Protection and Control Practices Subcommittee
Scope: Evaluate and report on all matters related to protection and control practices for compatibility with the physical and electrical environment (including but not limited to equipment withstand capabilities to electromagnetic interference), characteristics and performance of instrument transformers and sensors, equipment and system testing procedures, protection and control performance criteria and applications, event/transient recording, and definitions of protection and control systems. Develop, recommend, establish, and maintain standards on protective relaying and control equipment and practices. Evaluate, report on, and develop standards on other pertinent aspects of protective relaying and control systems not addressed by other PSRC Subcommittees.
Web Page: https://www.pes-psrc.org/I
IEEE SA Program Manager: Malia Zaman
Rotating Machinery Subcommittee
Scope: Evaluate and report on protective relaying concepts and practices applicable to generators, motors, synchronous condensers, associated auxiliary systems, and performance of plant protective systems. Develop and maintain related relaying standards.
Will English, Chair
Consumers Energy
Web Page: https://www.pes-psrc.org/J
IEEE SA Program Manager: Malia Zaman
Substation Protection Subcommittee
Scope: Evaluate and report on methods used in protective relaying of substations and the consumer or independent power producer, associated equipment and performance of these protective systems. Develop and maintain relaying standards which relate to this equipment and the utility-consumer interface.
Adi Mulawarman, Chair
Xcel Energy
Web Page: https://www.pes-psrc.org/K
IEEE SA Program Manager: Malia Zaman
Upcoming Events
- 12-15 May, 2025
Hilton Portland Downtown
921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204 - 12-16 January, 2025
Hyatt Regency
11999 Harbor Blvd, Garden Grove CA 92840
Resources
- Download the Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRC) Flyer [PDF 133KB]
- Download the Power System Relaying and Control Committee (PSRC) O&P Manual [PDF 226KB]
Most Recent Annual Report
- 2023 [PDF 187KB]