This guide for Centralized Protection and Control (CPC) systems within a substation addresses the realization of various protection, automation, and control functions within a CPC system utilizing data collected from intelligent electronic devices. This guide includes protection, automation, and control functions within a substation, including interconnecting circuits using devices and their interconnections with suitable communication protocols. This guide includes references to existing standards applicable to protection, automation, and control applications for various types of circuit elements such as generators, transformers, bus bars, shunt and series ...

This guide for centralized protection and control (CPC) systems addresses the realization of various protection, automation, and control functions within a CPC system utilizing data collected from intelligent electronic devices (IEDs). This guide includes protection, automation, and control functions in a substation, including interconnecting circuits using devices and their interconnections with suitable communication protocols. This guide includes references to existing standards applicable to protection, automation, and control applications for various types of circuit elements such as generators, transformers, bus bars, shunt and series capacitor banks, ...

This guide summarizes the generally accepted practices for the use of centralized protection and control (CPC) systems within a substation.