An innovative and automated solution for NERC PRC-027-1 compliance

Compliance with NERC PRC-027-1 has brought increasing stress to utilities as they work to establish a defined process for performing relay setting development and coordination at regular intervals. While current software programs attempt to aid utilities in complying with this new standard, they only offer an overwhelming and unmanageable report of coordination study results. None of the current programs provides a work flow from relay setting development to wide area coordination, which is what utilities desperately need. In this paper, we present an innovative process to comply with the R1, R2, and R3 requirements of PRC-027-1 through the use of an automated solution.