IEEE Updates Standard for Designing Power Systems
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has updated its Gold Book standard, developed to help plan, design and operate reliable industrial and commercial electric power distribution systems.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has updated its Gold Book standard, developed to help plan, design and operate reliable industrial and commercial electric power distribution systems.
Also known as
IEEE 493, “Recommended Practice for the Design of Reliable Industrial and Commercial Power Systems,” the standard addresses the cost of plant outages when making design decisions for new systems and the ability to quantify cost-versus-reliability trade-offs.
Topics covered in the standard include the fundamentals of evaluating power system reliability, data on the cost of power outages, and examples of reliability analysis. It also considers emergency and standby power, voltage sag analysis, electrical preventive maintenance, and evaluating and improving the reliability of existing facilities.
This revision updates the 1997 version to reflect advances in the field and current practices, as well as the standard’s comprehensive equipment reliability database.
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