The 2007 Texas A&M conference was held in College Station, Texas, USA 27-29 March 2007. The City of College Station is a young municipality, with its beginnings in the founding of Texas A&M College - the first state institution of higher education in Texas, inaugurated in 1876.

After the end of the paper sessions the participants visited the hospitality suites at the College Station Hilton hotel.

In the words of Prof. B. Don Russel, the Chairman of the Conference: "...For 60 years the Annual Conference for Protective Relay Engineers has provided the best available information on protective relay applications and technology. With the changes that have occurred in the electric power industry and with the business emphasis on efficiency and cost savings, the relay conference is even more important than ever. Engineers tell me that they have far less time today to familiarize themselves with available equipment and systems and must rely more than ever on manufacturers and outside contractors. This means that the networking and concentrated information that is provided by our relay conference is critical to helping protection engineers understand new protection concepts, advances in equipment, and problems that have occurred in the application of systems and devices. Engineers interested in the design, application, and operation of protective relay systems and equipment will be challenged by a wide range of papers, panels, and discussion forums that will help them do their jobs better!

The planning committee of the conference works closely with representatives from manufacturing companies and operating utilities to select papers and presentations that are both practical and educational. Special tutorials are presented that provide new engineers with the basics and fundamentals. Utility presentations give application information that represents a valuable supplement to manufacturer's specifications. At every level the planning committee seeks to strike a balance between innovative concepts and practical solutions to current problems."

The conference program reflects these intentions and the papers divided in several tracks  that are focused on power engineering and industrial applications and cover a wide range of issues related to power system protection. Most of the papers are presented in single sessions, while the breakout sessions run in parallel.

The papers discussed challenges to protection caused by different line configurations, CT performance or transformer energization.  Another group of papers covered arc-flash protection and operation in industrial environment. IEC 61850 and its impact on protection applications, experience with standardized protection and lessons learned from relay operations analysis, as well as data integration and wind farm protection added to the variety of topics presented and discussed at the conference.