IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Power System Relaying and Control (PSRC) Committee
PES Power System Relaying and Control (PSRC) Committee is responsible for the development of standards, guides and reports covering different aspects of protection and control of electric power systems.
by Catherine Dalton, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Our September PSRC meeting is taking place in Richmond, VA during the week of September 8, 2025. The May 2025 PSRC meeting took place in Portland, Oregon, and had a successful turnout of 220 participants! The PSRC is in sync with the PES strategic direction, to be the leading provider of the latest technological development in the power and energy industry for the betterment of humanity. Core competencies include education, standards, publications and conferences
Officers include Gene Henneberg, Chair; Jim Niemira, Vice Chair; Gary Kobet, Secretary. Erin Jessup, Standards Coordinator.
PSRC Membership: Plan to attend the newcomer’s orientation if you are a new PSRC attendee. It takes place on Tuesday morning at 8am. If you are a new member of PSRC and have not yet created your MemberPlanet profile, please do so. It is required to update you on PSRC activities and maintain you member status on any roster. If your contact information has changed since you created your profile, please update it. https://ieee.memberplanet.com/v2app/#/member-registration/join
IEEE PES PSRC has a new LinkedIn page with 217 members currently. We want YOU to participate! Please join our group: IEEE PES PSRC (public group). The process….1. Log into your LinkedIn account. 2. Search for “IEEE PES PSRC.” 3. Select ‘Groups’ from the header menu. 4. Select “Join.”
IEEE Copyright: You may run across posts on LinkedIn or elsewhere that share IEEE standards documents. If you do, please forward information including any links to the post to infringement @ieee.org to alert IEEE.
IEEE PES PSRC Awards: The most recent PSRC awards ceremony was held Monday, May 12, 2025, at the Hilton Portland Downtown, Portland, Oregon. New Main Committee Members as of January 2025 include Brandon Lewey, Doug Weisz, and Scott Mix. As of May 1, 2025, there are 118 voting members of the Main committee. Please join us for the September awards ceremony.
Reminder for Standards Working Group awards and certificates of appreciation: Once your working group has completed its work, please contact Andrew Uribe andre.uribe@ieee.org for the process to request awards and certificates.
If you need assistance with any bigger picture PES or IEEE issues, please contact IEEE PES Program Manager, Abira Altvater at email Abira.Altvater@ieee.org. She will be able to get you in touch with the correct resources at PES or IEEE. Submit a topic for a PES webinar. The focus of the webinar can be technical, professional development, or current issues/hot topics in the power industry.
Technical Paper Coordinator Report: The theme of the IEEE 2025 General Meeting, July 27-31, 2025, in Austin, TX was “Achieving Deep Decarbonization in the Electric Power System.”
Here is a summary of the tutorials and panels that PSRC sponsored or participated in.
Tutorials, Sunday July 27:
- Power System Protection for the IBR Dominated Power Grid
- Introduction to IEEE 2800 and Lessons Learned
Five panels were accepted and presented:
- Inverter-Based Generation and Loads – Challenges and Opportunities
- Wildfire Panel
- Balancing Grid needs and fault ride-through control constraints of IBRs
- Advances in Short Circuit Modeling of Inverter-Based Resources (IBR)
- Advances in Transmission Protection for High-IBR Systems
Conference Papers:
- PSRC reviewed more than 40 papers and approved 24 for inclusion in the conference proceedings and poster session
Standard Coordinator’s Report by Erin Jessup. Please refer to the Main committee meeting minutes for specific projects and status. There are currently 74 PSRC Standards related projects.
PSRC Subcommittee Updates: All of PSRC’s Subcommittees, H, I, J, K, C, D, are diligently working on numerous Standards, Guides, technical papers, tutorials, webinars, etc. for our industry. Subcommittee chairs Hugo Monterrubio (H), Angelo Tempone (I), Will English (J), Brandon Davies (K), Michael Higginson C), and Meyer Kao, (D). Please refer to the PSRC Main Committee Minutes for May 2025 for more details on all these updates.
Future Meetings:
- September 8-11, 2025, Richmond, VA, DoubleTree by Hilton, Richmond-Midlothian
- January 11-15, 2026, (JTCM) Atlanta, GA, Courtland Grand Hotel
- May 11-14, 2026, Cleveland, OH, The Westin Downtown
- September 14-17, 2026, Reno, NV, Peppermill Hotel and Casino
Biography:
Catherine Dalton is a Strategic Account Executive at EPRI. She has broad experience in the electric utility industry. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and an active participant in IEEE PES PSRC. She has a master’s degree in electrical engineering (Ohio State University,) and a MBA from the University of Dayton. Previously she worked for American Electric Power, Basler Electric, SEL and Beckwith Electric.
