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PRC-001-1, PRC-004-2a, PRC-005-1b, PRC-007-0, PRC-008-1, PRC-011-0 and PRC-023-1 have been identified as high-priority reliability standards.
PRC-005 is the most violated NERC-PRC standard of all time, and its mission to organize and implement protection system maintenance is especially critical for ensuring system reliability. The level of PRC-005 compliance of the registered entity will be the most telling for compliance with these reliability standards. The compliance performance of a registered entity with PRC-005 is a good guide as to how well protection systems at that entity are maintained and tested.
Common violations have included failing to (1) test protection systems in accordance with the user-defined program; (2) have a maintenance and testing program consistent with the requirements of the standard (e.g., not including testing procedures for each type of protection system device); (3) have adequate documentation of testing results.
Each year, NERC issues their report of the Top 10 All Time Violated Standards. NERC-PRC-005 has ranked in the top ten of this list since inception. PRC-005’s presence is still dominating the list! Why?
Table 1: Top-10 violation statistics for the near term in all Regions and by Interconnection for all reliability standards.
From PRC-005 compliance violations and subsequent corrections, the industry should have learned by now that a utility should have accurate and effective policies, procedures, and controls in place that are followed and kept up to date. So why is PRC-005 still on the top ten All Time Violated Standards list?
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