This Recommended Practice addresses the uses, power sources, design, and maintenance of emergency and standby power systems. Chapter 3 is a general discussion of needs for and the configuration of emergency and standby systems. Chapter 9 lists the power needs for specific industries. Chapters 4 and 5 deal with the selection of power sources. Chapter 6 provides recommendations for protecting both power sources and switching equipment during fault conditions. Chapter 7 provides recommendations for design of system grounding, and Chapter 10 provides recommendations for designing to reliability objectives. Chapter 8 provides recommended maintenance practices.
- Standard Committee
- IAS/ICPS/SDC - Industrial & Commercial Power Systems Standards Development Committee
- Status
- Inactive-Reserved Standard
- PAR Approval
- 1992-06-18
- Superseding
- 446-1987
- Board Approval
- 1995-12-12
- History
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- ANSI Approved:
- 1996-08-01
- ANSI Withdrawn Date:
- 2011-09-09
- Published:
- 1996-07-03
- Reaffirmed:
- 2000-06-21
- Inactivated Date:
- 2021-03-25
Working Group Details
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- IEEE Industry Applications Society
- Standard Committee
- IAS/ICPS/SDC - Industrial & Commercial Power Systems Standards Development Committee
- Working Group
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P1668 - P1668 Working Group
- IEEE Program Manager
- Michael Kipness
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- Mark Stephens
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